I don’t know! You wait a lifetime to see a photo of a Blantyre man standing at Livingstone’s Statue at Victoria Falls, and TWO come along , separately in the same week! An earlier post showed Blantyre man Jim McSorley celebrating his 60th birthday at the Falls but this is topped only by Archie’s “remarkable […]
Today, I received a flurry of emails from Blantyre Project Archie Simm, who is currently on holiday in America. He’s staying at the MOST AMAZING venue! After a recent operation, Archie was taking some time out to holiday with his wife for their 40th Wedding Anniversary and decided to spend a 3 night stay at […]
We’re halfway through our remarkable look at working life in a market garden in 1874 and the amazingly detailed diary of Archie Brown from 1874 and 1875. I hope you’re enjoying the wonderful photos and extracts in these articles. Pictured in 1908 is Boathouse Greenhouses and Orchard at the market garden business. Continuing our […]
Jim Cochrane sent in this WW2 photo adding, “Two of my Great Uncles at the back door of Calderside Farm. Robert and I think, Archie on the right. My uncle Bobby never married and worked at Calderside all his life. He was called up in WW2 and was a dispatch rider in Army in the […]