We’ll probably never know the identity of this boy, photographed sometime between 1895 and 1914. The photo is amongst a collection by Blantyre amateur photographer, David Ritchie and despite it being up to 127 years old, the photo is in pristine condition, taken from a negative plate. The fashions suggest Edwardian, rather than Victorian, so […]
Pictured are the girls of David Livingstone P7 Girls Netball Team around about 1982. The names are (mostly) known. Apologies if I’ve got anybody’s name wrong or missing. I was at school at High Blantyre Primary at the time! From back left to right: Glenda Nugent, Julie Richardson, Jane Scott, Letitia Waugh, Karen Copeland and […]
This is the Jack family from Stonefield Road, Blantyre. The Photo was taken in the late 1800s and is shared here by Ken Shaw. James Jack & Agnes Jack (Marshall) pictured had 12 children, 8 in photo, 6 of each sex. The children emigrated to USA & Australia. Ken told me, “I’m the grandchild of […]
Today’s picture is High Blantyre lassie, Miss Ritchie. This is certainly one of joiner and photographer, David Ritchie’s children, but I’m not sure which one. Lizzie? Minnie? The picture is from just before 1900, making it over 120 years old. The Ritchie family lived at one time on School Lane, then at Broompark Avenue in […]
Today, as we continue to explore those local servicemen and women who died in WW2, we remember Pilot Flight Sergeant, Victor L Bell. Victor L Bell was born in Holytown in 1921 but when he married Delia Joyce in Blantyre in 1943, he was a Blantyre man. The couple lived at Parkville Drive, Springwell, Blantyre. Delia was […]
In 1945 sadly AFTER the end of the war, Mr and Mrs McGowan of 24 Logan Street read that their son, Stoker Edward McGowan had died in a Japanese P.O.W. camp. Reported the Hamilton Advertiser on 13th October 1945. “A member of the crew of H.M.S. Exeter, which went down in the battle of Java almost four years ago, […]
A couple of years ago, Hamish Dow, passed on a chapter of his own father’s tale about how he was liberated from a Japanese WW2 Camp. Malcolm Dow, a Blantyre man had been captured by the Japanese during the war and this excerpt is just part of his overall, incredible story of capture and later […]