What about this for a crystal clear, corker of a photo! From around 1905, this is Blantyre Silver Band. The photo is already over 115 years old and was taken by David Ritchie. Previously unseen online, I’ve been able to identify the location as being the former back stairway of Douglas Castle, near Douglas, Lanarkshire. […]
This is Blantyre Silver Band pictured around 1900. This previously unseen photo is from the collection of David Ritchie, who features in the photograph at the back as one of the cornet players. David was a joiner of High Blantyre and keen amateur photographer, the collection of photos now passed over to Blantyre Project for […]
Drew Fisher shared this happy photo, so full of life and character. He told me, “This is my Grandmother and Grandfather, Mary (85) and John Galloway (86). They celebrated their Diamond Wedding anniversary on 1st January 1970. John was born in Easterhouse on 3rd January 1885 and Mary on 22 January 1884 in Newton, but […]
A Blantyre man has told how he raised a glass to Scotland’s national bard at a Burns Supper for 100 people in NIGERIA. Civil Servant David Smith, 24, celebrated poet Robert Burns at a diplomatic event hosted by officials from the British High Commission and the Department for International Development (DFID), based in the […]
I’ve re-written the article about David Hamil tonight, spending some time creating a more fitting tribute for my forthcoming book and utilising further information the family shared with me today. What an inspirational, incredible man David was. David Hamil was born on 22nd May 1921. Educated at Stonefield Parish School (Ness’s) on Glasgow Road, he […]
Here’s a great story with a Blantyre person fully deserving of recognition. This photo was exclusively shared to me by good friend, Archie Simm. Pictured is former High Blantyre Primary and Calder Street Secondary Schools pupil, Morris Buchanan who put Blantyre on the ten pin bowling map when, as the only Scot represented in the […]
A lady named Beth asks, “My Grandfather Robert Coats Young, was born at Lindsay’s Land, Stonefield Rd., Blantyre on 16 Feb 1902; His parents Alexander Hamilton Young & Janet Russell Mauchline m there 1 Dec 1893. Any information?” I was able to answer with: Here is Robert’s birth certificate, which you may have already. His ancestry is […]