It’s for a long time been known, that most Blantyre women are strong minded and can take matters into their own hands when the situation arises. One such occasion arose in 1909, where a High Blantyre woman called police to her husband, after it was discovered he was living “two lives”, married also at the […]
Continued from Part 1 ,this is an extract of Mary Berry’s journals from 08 November 1805. Speaking of hundreds of children employed in the Cotton Mills and conditions inside Blantyre works, Mary writes of her visit that day, “In the mean time all such care is taken of these children as perhaps in such a situation is […]
Alan Conroy wrote to me, saying, “Hi there, My grandmother Mary Ann Quinn was born in Blantyre on 10th December 1910. Amazingly, we didn’t find this out until 2010 when she was 100 years old. Her parents had moved over to Blantyre form Ireland so her father could work in the mines. I did some […]