Thank you to Maureen Mullholland- Byrne who sent me a lovely detailed message about her family members who once lived in Blantyre. Maureen now lives in Nova Scotia in Canada but has clearly researched her family in detail. Her message is below, which I think will be interesting to families with the names mentioned. “Hi […]
A bizarre circumstance took place in Blantyre on Tuesday 29th August 1933. Whilst illegal, it also showed the compassion Blantyre people have for their own, when a family is at its lowest ebb. The incident involved the ejection at a late hour of a Blantyre family from a sub-let room in a house tenanted by […]
The council homes which had newly been constructed at Logan Street in the early 1930’s proved too much of a temptation to some Blantyre residents, when upon seeing them built, by comparison to their own circumstances, proved a tempting solution to their own housing crisis. At the start of September 1933, Blantyre squatters, Mr and […]
Although Calderwood Castle is not in our Blantyre Parish, the one time Baronet, Sir William Maxwell ,whose seat it was, used to be a heritor of Blantyre with a large property and business interest in Blantyre in the 18th Century. This article below gives a little bit of background about the Castle and more importantly […]
In the late 1700’s, a prominent Blantyre family named Miller lived in Millheugh, in the grand house on the banks of the Calder River (pictured here in 1910 at the falls). Professor Miller and D Baillie, minister of Bothwell were great friends and the families shared the closest of kinship. Janet Miller, one of […]