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Some news articles next all from the second week in March 1968. This was a week Jimi Hendrix was making headlines and Otis Reading was sitting on top of chart success with “Dock of the Bay”. The Bee Gees crossed the pond to try to “break” America, just as the American President ramped up troop […]
Going back 53 years next. The last week in July 1967, was not a good week for crashes in Blantyre. Several accidents resulted in significant lengths of walls being demolished. First, an articulated lorry collided with the boundary wall of Anderson Church on Stonefield Road resulting in about 20 feet of boundary wall and iron […]
About ten o’clock on the evening of Tuesday 16th May 1916, a terrible motor car accident occurred on Glasgow Road, Blantyre, resulting in the death of a boy and injuries to two girls. This was a time of very few vehicles on the road and few rules for safety. The motor car in question actually […]
Today, Friday 8th May 2020 marks the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day). Like communities all over Britain, spontaneous parties and celebrations broke out in Blantyre. Our community took its appropriate part. For those who had not lost loved ones, it was time to celebrate that a terrible long war in Europe […]
On Saturday 26th August 1916, a large ‘Char-a-banc’ left High Blantyre for a summer’s excursion to Dumfries. It was to be a day out for 40 Blantyre miners, a brief respite from hard work, a trip overground, partly funded by Employers. However, it did not go quite to plan. A Char-a Banc is an early […]
In September 1916, an anonymous volunteer involved in the rescue and recovery of people in difficulties in the River Clyde was concerned about the frequency of drownings in the Village. He wrote to the papers making an appeal, as follows word for word: “As I was one of the voluntary rescue party the recent drowning […]
A good story for 23rd December. Many years ago on Saturday 23rd December 1916, a football match was planned between Blantyre Vics and Croy Celtic. However, following a spell of rain during that wartime weekend, Blantyre Vics took the decision that morning to cancel the game on account of the playing field at Castle Park […]
A story now almost 103 years ago to the day. As was customary, the children of the Stonefield Parish Church Sunday School would often hold their annual Christmas concert, a couple of days before Christmas Day. In 1916, that fell on Saturday 23rd December and children of that sabbath school were invited along that afternoon […]
During February 1917, a very large number of people were transferring their savings at the post office into war bonds in aid of the war loan. Miss Stewart at the Blantyre Post Office and her assistants were kept extremely busy, forced to keep open the post office until late hours for much of that month. […]