Margo Wicks (nee Pollock) recently shared a little bit of interesting medical history relating to her birth, which is permitted to be posted here. Margo and her identical twin were born in Bellshill Maternity Hospital on 1st April 1960. Margo Pollock weighed 8lbs 11oz and her twin sister Mari Pollock weighed in at 7lbs 13oz. Being […]
Jim “Jimmy” Binning was a Scottish Footballer who played for Arbroath and Dumfries side Queen of the South. Born on 21st December 1922 in Blantyre, he lived above Kelly’s Bar at number 10 Auchinraith Road. The son of James Binning, who rented that property. His interest and passion in football started from an early age, living close […]
Here’s a brilliant photo full of character. Two Blantyre gents stand on Glasgow Road outside the former iconic Post Office Building. The chap to the left possibly had nickname ‘old snowy’. I’m unsure who the person on the right is. Do you recognise these men? In the background, the Clydeview Shopping Centre has been built. The […]
That awful moment, when I accidentally stumbled upon the 1917 death of a young local girl, then realising she was a family member. Jenny Bowie Duncan was only 7 when she passed away on 28th June 1917 at Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow. She was a much loved daughter of the Duncans, my great grandparents. Living […]
Blantyre man, Gunnnar Thomas Galloway of the Royal Field Artillery was killed in France by the bursting of a shell on 24thJune 1917 during WW1. A Gunner in the RFA, he lived at 33 Carlton Place, former address on Craig Street. He enlisted on 1stSeptember 1914 and proceeded to the front in spring 1915. He was […]
Wednesday 18th July 1917 saw a somewhat serious accident befall upon Mr Robert Provan (62). As he worked in gathering hay at Craighead Farm, he slipped and fell heavily into a hay fork, which had only been sharpened that morning! One of the fork prongs pierced his windpipe and another, his neck below the left […]
A sad accident took place in Blantyre on the afternoon of Saturday 14th July 1917. Elizabeth Burns, aged 5 and a half, daughter of Edward Burns stayed with her Aunt, Mrs Dorrington at 201 Glasgow Road. The little girl had been crossing the Glasgow Road behind the Number 4 tram car (pictured a decade earlier) […]