Another previously unseen school photo. Shared here kindly from Bill Beers who dropped it in to my home whilst on holiday from Canada. His wife Susan was in this class. The date is 1949 and it’s Miss Galloway’s class at High Blantyre Primary School on Hunthill Road. The children here would now be in their […]
I was very honoured and thrilled to receive a visit from Bill Beers back in January 2016, when he was visiting Blantyre away from his home in Canada. Bill had married Blantyre girl, Susan Wright, whose parents lived at Watson Street. Whilst on holiday in Blantyre, Bill dropped by my home and he very kindly […]
I wrote last year about a little 19th Century town in Ontario, Canada called “Blantyre”. It had only 50 people living there and in modern times had become a “ghost town”. You can read the article here. https://blantyreproject.com/2015/12/16/the-canadian-blantyre/ I’ve now had a couple of Canadian ex-pats point out this little town to me, but nobody has […]