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Marion Turner shared this old photo of her mother’s oldest sister (her aunt). The family think the little girl may be around 10 years old in this photo. Pictured is Barbara Anderson Hamilton Denholm who was born in 1895 in Hamilton. The eldest 3 children of this family were born in Hamilton and the family […]
Sticking with Boathouse today. A photo from around 1900 or so. This is Arch Brown, the orchardist who lived at Boathouse, near Blantyreferme. Here in this colourised photo, he’s working with the barrels and fruit baskets which stored the picked fruit from the nearby orchards on the edge of the River Clyde. Local people may […]
Heather McKnight-Wendt, a Blantyre Project reader living in Germany shared these photos. The little girl is her gran around 1913, Margaret McKnight neé Lees who was nicknamed “Meg.” The second photo is of Elisabeth Lees who was attending her daughter Meg’s wedding in 1945. Finally, in the purple dress, grown up Margaret “Meg” McKnight (neé […]
Thought I’d share this photo today. It’s the 11th August 1975. 1st day of school. Off I went with my flares, knee high socks, (man)bag and a blonde fashionable “bob”. It was the week Peter Gabriel quit Genesis and man’s first spaceprobe reached another planet (Viking I and Mars). I was 4 and a half […]
On Friday 7th March 1913, a Blantyre bookmaker, appeared before the Sheriff in the Court in Hamilton. In big trouble, he had been caught gambling illegally in the street and in quite the literal sense had given the police a run for their money! Officers on foot chased him running through Blantyre’s streets and hedgerows […]
Blantyre Project reader and friend, Archie Simm messaged me recently saying, “A few apprentices in Belmos were part of The Territorial Army. We were part of “C” (Charlie) company 1st and 2nd battalion The Cameronians. Our company HQ was at the bottom of Logan Street (hope that is all accurate!). 5 of us went to […]
A photo from the 1940s next. This Mrs Jessie Paul at Greenhall. Jessie owned Greenhall House in that wartime decade, her family purchasing the estate from the Wardrop Moore family in 1921. She’s pictured in her garden , not far from where the current carpark is now at Greenhall Park. This was very much a […]