More Weddings of Blantyre folks, staying with 1978. Miss Morgan ALLAN of 41 Harkins Avenue married Mr James LINES of Cornwall in Springtime 1978. They were married in Burnbank. Miss Seonait CURRIE of 11 Stonefield Crescent, High Blantyre married Mr Alexander HAMILTON of Edinburgh. The couple were married in 1978 in High Blantyre Old […]
Lets stay with 1978 and see some more Weddings featuring Blantyre folk! Miss Catherine Greenhorn of 7 Jedburgh Street, Blantyre married Alan Ritchie of Knightswood in early 1978. The wedding took place in St Andrews Parish Church in Low Blantyre. Hogmanay 1977, Miss Elizabeth Wotherspoon of 6 Wheatland Avenue and Mr William Allan of […]
Continuing a look at the 1960’s today with several more Blantyre Weddings. I’ve attempted to put more detail to these wedding photos and of course archive them and hundreds of others into a permanent archive of Blantyre Wedding Photos through the ages. Feel free to comment or tag people you know. Each of these 3 […]
The trial for alleged sedition of four Blantyre miners John Ballantyne, George Teesdale, Patrick Allan, and Robert Graham, ended Thursday 28th June 1928 at Hamilton. The jury found the men guilty and each was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. They were accused of having circulated a pamphlet, referring to the wearing of civilian clothing […]
Shortly after five o’clock on Friday 7th January 1938, a fatality occurred on Glasgow road at Blantyre, when Joseph Meechan (7), residing with his grandparents, Mr and Mrs John Meechan, 6 Alpine Street, Blantyre, was instantly killed. The boy darted across the road, and within 50 yards of his home was knocked down by a […]