Yeah! After a difficult week of contracting Strep A illness, I’m now back in the land of the living and feeling much better tonight. As such, daily new articles will resume at Blantyre Project releasing further scheduled posts about Blantyre from tomorrow morning. Thanks for all your messages. It’s been a horrible time with constant […]
Just a quick note for readers as unusually there hasn’t been articles since 12th January. I’ve been very ill this week with constant sickness and a fever still unbroken after being diagnosed with Strep A. My scheduling is all over the place just now. I’ll release articles just as soon as i’m better. Thanks for […]
Last year I had a particularly ambitious New Year’s message hoping for the best year for us all. This year, I’ve toned it down a little with a realistic outlook. Life doesn’t always turn out at its very best and with an unexpected war in Ukraine causing further cost of living issues, the misery of […]
I’d like to say ‘Merry Christmas’ and thank you to all the nearly 15,000 people following this popular page who follow Blantyre Project posts so avidly here each day. It’s been another difficult year for us all as a cost of living crisis bites into all households, so soon after pandemic. For me personally it was difficult. […]
Some more photos from my family album. Taken 52 years ago, this is December 1970 as my 23 year old mother Janet Veverka (nee Duncan) is heavily pregnant with me. This was at Stonefield Crescent in the family home as mum and dad celebrated their first year together as a married couple. The family pet […]
I’ve been posting the last few days about William Rae, the Blantyre bonesetter. Whilst researching his efforts in trying to “cure” many limp people, I found this photo of him, which I believe is previously unseen online. It’s not one of the more commonly produced postcards and instead is a photo of him at home […]
1904 was perhaps the height of popularity for the Blantyre bonesetter, the bloodless surgeon, Mr. William Rae. At this home at Raploch Cottage, at the top of Station Road, visitors besieged his home that year more than any other. Reports took time to record the events in Blantyre that year. On Saturday 24th September, a […]