What if you could go back half a century to 1976 and stand at the top of Station Road, looking across to the Co-Op on Glasgow Road? What would you see? Even if its only for 4 seconds, A.I imagines…….I thought this turned out rather well, in excepitional quality and quite accurate, considering this video […]
Meet Blantyre’s battling duo who, in April 1977, gave Scotland’s best junior boxers the old ‘one-two’. During the first weekend of April 1977, Blantyre Miners Welfare Amateur Boxing Club stars Billy Nicholas (16), and Hugh ‘Sugar’ Kelly (15) won their sections in the Scottish Amateur Boxing Association’s Western District finals. They made the papers for […]
The celebrations surrounding the 100th birthday of Blantyre Lodge Livingstone No. 599 continued on the first Friday night of March 1977 at the Whitehill Civic Centre. These Lodge officials, members and guests came along to the 599 Centenary Dance. The previous week, the Lodge held a rededication service in the Masonic Hall followed by a […]
On 10th November 2014, I was contacted by Betty McLean of Oakville, USA who asked ,“I wonder if you know that there is a book called Collier’s Row written by a Blantyre lady called Jan Webster? I have the book Colliers Row but somewhere in a box I will try to look for it and […]