I think I may have uncovered evidence of Blantyre’s first petrol station. The Hamilton Advertiser commented on 30th May 1914 that a “Mr. Anderson, The Wheel, Blantyre had just erected a suitable place for the storing of petrol or shell spirit, the largest portion of which was placed below ground level.” Owing to restrictions imposed […]
A couple of weddings from 1967 next. Policewoman Vivian Kerr of Waverley Terrace married Airdrie Constable Robert Tweedie at High Blantyre Parish Church. The couple were stationed at Blantyre Police Station but later moved to Coatshill with daughters Kirstie and Una. Also in 1967 Etta Gray of Beech Place, Blantyre married Hamilton man Andrew Anderson. […]
Continuing a look at 1967 Blantyre weddings from Blantyre Project wedding archives. First is Margaret McDougall of 19 Abiegail Place who married James Anderson also of Blantyre. Miss Mary Allan of 27 Auchinraith Terrace married Mr Joseph Mullen of 1 Nursery Place, High Blantyre in 1967. The couple were married in St Joseph’s Church […]
In 1871, the the Blantyre Free Church in Stonefield Road completely burned down. To those loyal worshippers, Rev James Anderson continued to minister until his death on 7th May 1860, in the 28th year of his ministry, passing away before any fire. (Coincidentally, the minister who succeeded Rev Anderson at the Old Parish Church in 1843 […]
Miss Janet Anderson died on Tuesday 27th May 1879. The dairymaid from Calderglen was killed under shocking circumstances on the railway near Blantyre. She had been at Hamilton and travelled by train to Low Blantyre Station, alighting there. She decided then to take a short cut along the line, which directly passed by Calderglen. She was […]
Pictured in this series of photos is the Anderson church on Stonefield Road on its final day. Sadly the church was burned down on 8th June 1978 by an unknown cause. The church hall on the right remains today as Smith’s Funeral Parlour. I remember this day well. It was around 5pm in the afternoon. I […]
Thank you to Jim Cochrane for sharing these photos of 6 Watson Place, Blantyre. Jim told me, “6 Watson Place back Garden. Constructed in steel. My great GrandParents lived here From the 1930s William and Catherine Cochrane. Then my Uncle Bill and Aunt Liz Cochrane untill the late 1990s.” In the other picture (from 1960s), “My […]