Canadian Don Adams contacted me recently with an interesting message. He owns a click from the early 1900s, which has a very specific Blantyre connection. The clock is pictured and on the front has a plaque, which is inscribed with: “Presented to Mr William SmithBy the teachers and senior pupils ofHigh Blantyre Public SchoolIn Recognition […]
Staying on a theme of nostalgia this Christmas break, who remembers the old style selection boxes from the 1970s? It was a real “treet” (forgive the pun!) to open this Mars set as a child. I can still remember these boxes, the design and the contents very clearly, Santa leaving them beside the stocking at […]
That time between Christmas and New Year when you’re not 100% sure what day it is! Its here. Sitting here amongst lots of Christmas decorations which in this household will be down on 1st January. However, got me thinking of Christmas holidays of old and the decorations we used to have back in the day. […]
Martin Weir, a friend of this page and keen metal detectorist recently messaged me about his latest, local find. He told me, “I’ve got another find waiting to be returned to me from the museum in the next year regarding the former Castle at Calderwood. I found another interesting object which was taken by the […]
Blantyre Project reader Martin Weir, recently sent me an interesting message. Martin, is a keen metal detectorist and being from East Kilbride, with permission has searched several fields between Blantyre and his hometown over the years. One of the fields he has searched is on the boundary between East Kilbride and Blantyre, and he’s actually […]
A mystery today with this next photo. Shared here by Rob Gordon, pictured is a rather nasty looking piece of shrapnel, jagged metal, which looks to have come apart by the force of some explosion. The mystery being that it was picked up in Blantyre during WW2. Rob was born during wartime years and it […]
I think local reporters had a fairly different perception of what made good “Blantyre news” back in Victorian times by comparison to today. Like for example this charming, yet rather unusual story. Appearing in the Hamilton Herald Newspaper on 19th March 1897, it read as follows: “The natives of Blantyre are presently rejoicing over 2 […]