As remembrance day arrives, scenes like these are repeated all over the country, like this one pictured on Sunday 11th November 1979. As the first snow of the year drove across the tiny hamlet of Auchentibber in High Blantyre, around 30 people braved the weather to take part in a traditional service of remembrance […]
How utterly tragic it is to find young men who died right at the end of war, just weeks before armistice. Today, we remember Alexander Gillespie, one of 14 men honoured on the Auchentibber War Memorial. It seems fitting to post this today, not just because the memorial is being renovated but today is exactly […]
I was reminded by Lisa Ashford-Potter last week that today, 25th April 2015 is Anzac day, a day when all Australians and New Zealanders remember all those who died in all their wars. Blantyre does not escape this tradition, despite being on the other side of the world. Lisa’s very own Great Uncle Thomas Potter, […]