Blantyre Cooperative Society Bakery – perhaps the tallest building Blantyre has seen, the Blantyre Co-operative Society (Number 5) Bakery, or more commonly known, the Auchinraith Bakery. At 5 storeys tall, this brick building truly was huge and dominated the skyline, only rivalled by the nearby Bing. It may have been the tallest and largest […]
Caitlyn Clarkson emailed me recently from her home in Canada, commenting, “You have created a wonderful website, the photographs are amazing and create such a sense of time and space. My great great grandparents lived in Blantyre for quite some time. They were Helen Miller and James Hogg. Helen Miller who married James Hogg (coal miner). Helen […]
Looking at this 1859 map of the Auchinraith House estate grounds, theres a small Bowling green located on the Hamilton side of the Parkburn River. Two sets of steps led down from steep slopes and paths, to a flattened area below. An icehouse nearby suggests, it may have been a place for curling in winter, […]
Taken from the forthcoming detailed book, “Blantyre Explained” by Paul D Veverka (c) 2016, here’s an extended article about Blantyre’s Auchinraith Pit Explosion in 1930. Pictured is a newspaper article from the Motherwell Times from that fateful day. On Saturday 30th August 1930, a huge explosion occurred at Number 1 pit, Auchinraith colliery belonging to Messrs’ […]
Continuing a look at all the brand new photos recently shared to Blantyre Project. This time, a wonderful photo of James Nimmo, sent in by Jane Davies, who added, “This is James Nimmo, at the Quoiting Green. Sorry, I don’t know the date.” Having researched this family previously, I knew this to be James Nimmo […]
Pictured here in her back garden (perhaps in the mid to late 1940’s) is Jane Currie Nimmo, the grandmother of Jane Davies, who sent in the photo. Jane Nimmo was born in 1869 and later in life, lived at 184 Auchinraith Road, a house not far from the junction of Main Street. This photo was taken […]
The National Unemployed Workers’ Movement was a British organisation set up in 1921 by members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. It aimed to draw attention to the plight of unemployed workers during the post World War I slump, the 1926 General Strike and later the Great Depression, and to fight the Means Test. During the 1930’s members of this organisation paid a weekly 1d. Mr. […]