These two beautiful photos of High Blantyre were taken one evening in December 2014 by Robert Stewart. I have to say the Christmas tree is up to 10 foot larger than it normally is in High Blantyre with slightly more lights than last year! It really does look great and makes the whole surrounding area […]
On Saturday 13th August 1938, a weary Carfin man Anthony Donnelly found himself in Blantyre, contemplating ending it all. He had walked up on to the Craighead Railway Viaduct and with his legs over the edge, sat there in silence. However, fate thankfully intervened when at 3.15pm a miner walking on the bridge, saw Anthony […]
In November 2014, Betty McLean in Canada contacted me about finding a vent pipe in High Blantyre that was close to the site of the 1877 Pit explosion. The vent pipe was found in the verge , not far from the pavement on Hillhouse road, not too far from the old location of the BIG […]
An interesting story about a Blantyre family taken from “The History of the Livingstone Memorial Church dated 1877-1927 by Rev Thos. A. Hugh, M.A” and I quote: “Mr. and Mrs George MacLachlan, for many years members of this congregation, had three sons killed in the 1877 Blantyre Explosion. Twenty three years later in 1900, they […]
As some of you know, I’ve been involved with Blantyre Community Committee this year, and along with four other people have helped organise the town’s Christmas Event. The Festive Lights Switch on and Market took place yesterday Sunday 30th November 2014 and was such an amazing success with the largest Christmas market ever seen in […]
Thanks to Emma Louise for sharing this photo of work currently underway today (9th November) on “The BIG H”, i.e the roundabout for the Technology Park at High Blantyre slip. Now I wonder… is the icon being PULLED down or is it being RENOVATED? (It was looking rather tatty If I’m honest.) By 4pm it […]
Tom Campbell recently contacted me from New Zealand to say, “to the bottom right of this map appears to be Burnside Cottages where I lived as a boy from 1958 until they were utterly destroyed by flooding of the Park Burn ten years later. I recall more than one cottage (at least three) occupied in […]