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Born in Edinburgh around 1862, its thought Mr. William Oliver came to Blantyre in Summer 1893 around the age of 31. He had good reason to do so, for he’d fallen for Jessie Fullerton, the daughter of the Cemetery keeper in High Blantyre. The couple married on 10th June 1893 at Stonefield Parish Church then […]
We’re taking a wee trip down memory lane this week. Jogging the memory. Though some of the picture’s aren’t Blantyre, I’m keen on hearing your memories put into a local context.First up who remembers the old sweetie shops, with MASSIVE bars of chocolate, great selections and when tins of sweets were literally that, huge tins! […]
Continuing the story of Auchinraith Pit Disaster, 1930. Continued from Part 5 yesterday. Today, we’re looking at some of the Interviews of the Survivors. The miners who walked away from the Auchinraith Pit Disaster of Saturday 30th August 1930. A Blantyre Gazette reporters visited most of the survivors who had worked in the ill fated […]
Wishing everybody reading this, a Happy Easter. Easter in the tyre, wull ne’r be the same,Naebday rolls their eggs nae mair,tae kids it jist seems lame. Ah ‘kin remember paintin’ eggs,wi’ colours sae bold an grand,bile them, paint ’em, line them up,on kitchen bunkers they stand. Then ‘aff tae the ‘hills’ for rollin,Greenha, Camel humps an […]
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Next we go to Millers Laun, the former tenements between Clark Street and John Street. Staying with our theme this week of going inside some of these old shops, we enter the door of 156 Glasgow Road on the north side. This is Amerigo ‘Rigo’ Russo’s grocers shop, pictured on 21st September 1981, just before […]
I wonder what the miners would have made of this? Built on the site of the former Dixon’s Colliery Number 2 at High Blantyre, the modern University of the West of Scotland is by far Blantyre’s most expensive building. Powered entirely by renewable wind energy from the turbines on Blantyre Muir, the University at Hamilton […]