Here’s a brilliant photo recently shared to this page. It’s 1939, before the outbreak of WW2 and these Blantyre children are pupils of Blantyre Public School. I’ve zoomed in on the children to see their expressions. These Blantyre children, if alive today would be around 86 or 87 years old. A long shot indeed for […]
This photo was shared recently by Jack Bethel. It’s an aerial photo of Blantyre taken in the early 1980s. A time before the Technology Park and before housing beside the church. The road snaking through the picture is Hunthill Road, with the old High Blantyre Primary School seen at the bottom left, one of 2 […]
A nostalgic 19 minute video of Blantyre High School Trip in 1976. A group of 35 pupils and staff from Blantyre High School spend their summer in Holland with PGL Young Adventure, living and travelling on a barge around the canals of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Delft Scheveningen & The Hague. This was known as ‘The Dutch […]
Former Blantyre High School Maths Teacher , Brian Mathieson contacted me recently with a nice 20 minute film that I’m sure will interest many people here. Brian digitised his 8mm film and has kindly made it available here. It’s silent and shows the Blantyre High pupils who went on a trip to France on an […]
I can remember this like it was yesterday! In June 1980, children at High Blantyre Primary School’s ‘Music and Drama’ Group put on a spectacular show! Their annual stage production was called, “A Touch of Class” and had 118 pupils in the cast! They performed to over 1300 people over that week, the audience comprised […]
Isabella McShane shared this photo of a show that ‘Auchinraith Primary School’ put on around 1970, close to her final year of Primary. Do you know any of the pupils (in what would certainly be classed as an unpolitical correct show these days) Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on […]
This photo of Auchinraith Primary School was shared by Ian Lappin. Does anybody recognise the pupils in the photo. And who’s the teacher? Some teachers at the time of this photo at Auchinraith School were Miss Sinclair, Miss Rose and Miss Drennan. What’s the exact year? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by […]
This is Auchinraith Primary School, in 1925 or 1926. Little Malcolm Dow is pictured third from the right in the back row and reckoned these kids would all be 9 or 10 years old. The teacher was Miss Stewart. A mixed class, both boys and girls, some happy, others not so much. 1926 was a […]