One of the oldest Blantyre books I have is this one. “The Annals of Blantyre 1885” is a detailed account of Blantyre life in the 1880’s and refers back even then to recorded history of Blantyre. The book was written by the Rev Stewart Wright, a minister in the Parish at the time at […]
The Story of the Blantyre Pit Explosion 1877 by Rev Stewart Wright 1885 published in the “Annals of Blantyre” The annals of our parish would certainly not be complete without some allusion to that catastrophe which so recently brought fish out if its obscurity into a sad prominence before the whole world, we mean the […]
An incredible old book has just come into our possession (well we bought it, rather inexpensively from an online bookshop in Perth). “The Annals of Blantyre 1883” is an account of Blantyre life in the 1880s and refers back to recorded history of Blantyre. The book was written by the Rev Stewart Wright, a minister […]