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Scouts Outing, Early 1950’s

May 4, 2019

This wonderful photo is Stonefield Parish Church scouts on an outing to Ayr, early 1950’s. Blantyre lads , perhaps born in Wartime years. John Brownlie is the scout leader on the right with hat and glasses. There’s no mention of the boys names, so perhaps it’s YOU, or you recognise a father or grandfather? With […]

Former Miners jaunt to the sea

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November 25, 2016

Blantyre Events

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By the 1960s, Blantyre’s Pits had closed down, but even in the late 1960s, the old miners remembered their harder years by meeting up for annual outings. Such an event took place on Monday 24th June 1968, where a calvacade of 12 buses, some 500 people strong left from the Blantyre Miners Welfare on an […]