A blood transfusion on a young Blantyre married woman, who apparently the time of the operation was dead, was successful on 26th October 1933 and she was taken home to recover. The operation was performed on a Mrs Reid, who resided at Ulva Place, Low Blantyre. When she became ill, an urgent telephone message was sent to […]
In August 2015, Jane Bainbridge (nee Gallacher) contacted me saying, “I loved reading your Nimmo story on Auchentibber. My Dad Robert Gallacher was also born in Auchentibber in 1937. He was one of 11 children (although there was one boy James who died). His parents were Catherine Purse and John Gallacher (later Gallagher.) My uncle […]
Pictured here in November 1933, is boxer Frank Markey (on the front left with hands in his pockets), at a weigh in at Dundee with boxer Jim Cowie. This was an important fight for the 1933 Scottish featherweight championship final. Unfortunately, Frank was beaten, but under controversial circumstances. Jim Cowie, Dundee, became feather-weight champion of Scotland […]
Lesley Dawson contacted me from New Zealand in August 2015, sharing some wonderful ancestry about her family, the Coats family of Blantyre who married into the Scott family. Lesley shared this amazing story and document, carefully researched, it is attached here. I especially liked this photo. The Scott silver scroll teapot, 1833 believed to have […]
Blantyre Vics Football Club pictured at Castle Park, Forrest Street in the late 1930s. Perhaps you recognise a parent, or uncle, or grandfather?
Sentence of 30 days imprisonment was imposed on William Sommerville Ritchie, a young unemployed farm servant, who appeared in custody before Sheriff Brown Hamilton Sheriff Court on Boxing Day 1933. He had pleaded guilty to 2 charges of breaking into a shed situated in Barnhill Nursery on Hunthill Road, on December 25th and opening two lockfast […]
Whilst you may have seen this 1908 photo of Auchenitbber Quotiing Team shared by Alex Bowie, I wanted to show you something specific about it. Pictured at the back is Mr. James Nimmo. I’d always thought his chain was a pocket watch, as was the custom at the time when being photographed. However, on August […]