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Love little snippets like this. Blantyre man Tam, writing under the name Tam Turnip in 1913 shared a few memories of Blantyre from his own childhood in the 1850’s. He wrote: “The gravedigger, Neil McNaught, was a great character, very fond of a dram, which seldom took his head but affected his legs badly. I […]
In 1913, a Blantyre parent found himself in court after thinking he had the right to choose the school his child goes to. William Marshall, a merchant claimed the right to send his child to the new Calder Street School, which was built the previous year. He chose to tell his child not to attend […]
Craighead School at one time was the largest Special needs School in Scotland with over 400 pupils. However, by 2008, in its final years pupil numbers and declined. On Friday 10th October 2008, the pupils and teachers of Craighead School held their annual Harvest celebration. The pupils had been planning this special day since the […]
Another old School photos. This time from 1946. These kids are all Blantyre children, born in the early part of WW2. This is Auchinraith School, the first intake of pupils that year, the youngest kids. Hamish Dow kindly shared this photo adding, “My brother Neil is 5th from the left in the middle row. I […]
Hamish Dow has shared this great photo of Auchinraith School in 1953. These are all Blantyre children and I’m sure they’ll be fathers, brothers, uncles and grandfathers in this photo of many readers. I’ve zoomed in for a better look. Hamish told me, “ These are the pupils of Auchinraith Primary School. If this is […]
Well, this takes me back! The year is 1985 and pictured is the lower floor corridors inside the former, Blantyre High School. There will be thousands of people who will remember these narrow, brick lined corridors with their large heavy wooden swing doors. This was my secondary school corridor, where friendships formed, pranks were played, […]
One from the family photo album. This is me in 1976, aged 5 and my sister Joanne playing outside High Blantyre Primary School. Not too sure what we’re doing here as Hunthill Road is in the foreground and it always seemed to be busy, even then. I’d forgotten there was a back entrance to the […]
How about this for a brilliant photo! Pictured in 1975 by Drew Semple is High Blantyre Primary School. Drew had the foresight to take several photos around Blantyre and kindly dropped them into my home just after the covid lockdown eased. Scanned in good resolution for sharing with Blantyre Project, a few of them will […]
I noticed a couple of interesting remarks in the meeting notes for Blantyre School Board in January 1916. The first related to Auchentibber School which had 125 scholars taking exams that year of which 113 had passed. 34 of them with merit. The grant for Auchentibber School that previous year had been £54, 17s and […]