On the final Saturday of May 1900, at 11.15pm, it was reported to the Blantyre police that the manse at the Free Church on Stonefield Road had been broken into, and afterwards set on fire. It appears that the Rev. James Campbell, the minister, with his wife and some of his family, had been spending […]
In 1905, Rev Thomas Pryde completed 25 years service of ministering in Blantyre. In May 1907, another minister Rev James Campbell of the Anderson United Free Church on Stonefield Road, also celebrated 25 years “on the job”. The marking of this local event was fairly well documented in newspapers, the interesting details of which are […]
Going back 53 years next. The last week in July 1967, was not a good week for crashes in Blantyre. Several accidents resulted in significant lengths of walls being demolished. First, an articulated lorry collided with the boundary wall of Anderson Church on Stonefield Road resulting in about 20 feet of boundary wall and iron […]
A pall of smoke hung over Lanarkshire on the afternoon of Monday 3rd September 1979. Upon investigation it was found that the St Andrews’s Church (formerly Stonefield Parish Church) on Glasgow Road was on fire. The fire representing the latest incident in a string of bad luck for this church. As brave firemen worked hard […]
The Anderson Church on the east side of Stonefield Road, burned down in the early evening of Thursday 8th June 1978. Vandals were thought to have caused the blaze, which totally destroyed the Church. The fire was a final act in a prolonged campaign of malicious attacks on the Anderson Church, which had not […]
Family friend and once my neighbour, Lillias Addison contacted me in February asking, “Please could you find out about my mother’s family, Davidson. Her name was Helen and she had a sister Annie and brothers John and William.” Here are my notes now researched. Helen Wood Davidson was born on 19th March 1912 at 3.15am […]
Continuing with brand new ‘old’ photos of Blantyre. This photo dates from 1930 and celebrates the renaming of the former Church on Stonefield Road and the new hall to its right. The manse to the left, the new hall is to the right. In 1871, the predecessor church at this site midway down the eastern […]