Continuing the article from yesterday when Blantyre Joiners went on a day trip to Ayrshire on Saturday 18th August 1894. Using actual photos of the event, I’ve been researching some details around what was clearly a great, memorable day out. A good read, continued from yesterday…. “On leaving the hotel [in Ayr] the party proceeded […]
On Wednesday 6th March 1895, Mr William F Hendrie, an early photographer in Blantyre gave a wonderful limelight lantern view showing for the public. Featuring his own photographs, the event combined not just displaying photos, but a lecture on the Homes, Haunts & Lyrics of poet, Rabbie Burns. The event took place in the Stonefield […]
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 […]
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 […]