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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 […]
With thanks to Gordon Cook who shared this great photo. Not a lot is known about it, but it is schoolchildren at High Blantyre School on Hunthill Road during 1908. The boys names aren’t known but they would have been born between 1900 to 1903 or so. Sometimes a lack of info on a picture […]
Pictures being sent in just seem to be getting better! Until recently, I thought the earliest Blantyre School photo was from 1886, but this one is a whole load earlier! Seen exclusively online here, it was shared by John Campbell, a direct descendent of the boy marked in the circle. This photo is from 1878 […]
Summer 1967 brought about a change where all pupils in Blantyre would go on to Calder Street Secondary School instead of Hamilton Academy or St Johns. The change was a big one for many families and Mr Thomas Moffat, the headmaster in the Blantyre school had some tough talking for parents who were already moaning […]
Unusually for me, I’ve not written much over the years about the former Craighead Retreat. So when Iain MacGregor contacted me recently offering some information ands this photo from the 1970’s, I welcomed the opportunity to post. He added “Here’s a photo of my late mum, Mrs Annie MacGregor (Nancy) who was a teacher at Craighead […]