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This is a school photo taken in Blantyre and whilst the school and actual year is unknown, there is a LOT of information about the names of pupils and the teacher, which I’m hoping will be able to identify both the school and a more approximate year. I’m going to say this looks like the […]
Reader, Janice Rodgers shared this photo a few weeks back. Taking you back now to Auchentibber School and 1935, some 86 years ago. Janice told me, “My dad, marked X was born 28 May 1927. So perhaps around 7 or 8 years old here” Looking through all the faces, this was before school uniforms, the […]
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 […]