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On 20th March 1909, a fight broke out on Glasgow Road, Blantyre between three Russians. The men spilled out into the street from a popular public house and a dispute arose about their game of cards. George Rutkowski of Glasgow Road and John Mutt of Fallside, both Russian miners confronted a third Russian male accusing […]
This photo was taken around 1910 by David Ritchie, a Blantyre joiner with an interest in early photography. It shows a party of Blantyre people out on an excursion to the Crown Hotel, at Campsie Glen. I’m going to be bold and suggest this is the ‘Blantyre Four in Hand Club’, a former driving club […]
Whilst 3rd Blantyre Scouts origins date back to 1930, there were actually earlier Scouting Groups in Blantyre. Even prior to WW1, Boy Scouts had been inaugurated in Low Blantyre in Springtime 1909, based from the Caldwell Halls on Glasgow Road. By April 1909, in a matter of weeks, there were over 70 boys enrolled for […]
The story of Votes for Women during the early 20th Century is a complex, winding story. Readers may be familiar with the Pankhurst family of women who brought together the movement to demand voting rights for females in the early decades of the 20th Century. What is not known though is that a Blantyre woman […]
Prior to WW1, there were many slums in Blantyre, houses of such poor condition, condemned as unfit for human habitation, which unfortunately many families lived in and endured. One such property at the time was Shuttle Row and that building and its inhabitants is the subject of our story today. On Saturday 17th July 1909, […]
On the last Wednesday evening of September 1909, the members of the Blantyre Bowling Club closed their season, with the annual supper was held in the neat new green pavilion at their ground on Stonefield Road. Mr John Muir, president for 1909, occupied the chair, and in addition to representative attendance of the club members, […]
In late October 1909, several residents of Caldervale, (Fin me Oot) were involved in a railway accident whilst out walking. A warning this post contains some upsetting content. The accident occurred at Newton, in Cambuslang Parish. Margaret McKerney or McAllister, aged fifty-one, residing at 34 Caldervale Rows, Blantyre, and Robert McAllister, her husband, along with […]