When Alex Bowie shared this great photo with Blantyre Project, he suggested it was Blackwood Bowling Club, as it was mixed in with photos of both Blantyre and Blackwood Bowling Clubs. However, I’d like to suggest this is actually Blantyre. Not only are some of the men recognised by me as Blantyre men from other […]
Friday 24th September 1915, saw the Blantyre Bowling Green close at Stonefield Road. It was not just the last game of the season, but the prevailing difficult and escalating WW1 conditions, was generally making sports and recreation a thing less on people’s minds. The last games were carried out quietly and instead of the usual […]
A brand new season of Blantyre Bowling Club opened on the evening of Thursday 11th May 1916. Like many organisations during WW1, thoughts were also on those members currently not in Britain, fighting on the front. The remaining members of the club set the opening bowl a-rolling for another season, marking hope for the future […]
Pictured here at the opening of the 1978 / 1979 Blantyre Bowling Club, President John McGeehan receives the new President’s Badge from immediate past President, George Moultire. Also pictured is Mrs Margaret McGeehan next to her husband. Do you know anybody else in the photo? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not […]
The 1967 season got off underway at Blantyre Bowling Club with Mr Gavin Taylor, President (pictured right) welcoming a large group of attendees. Vice President Alex Paterson hands over the little silver jack to Mrs Taylor. Alex is standing beside his wife on the left. The outside pictures lasted only a short time, for rain […]
More Blantyre News from 20th January 1967. Some little interesting snippets of what was going on back then , that week. Coatshill Tyre Spree “Police have received a number of complaints of tyres being slashed in the Coatshill area of Blantyre. Enquiries are being made as a sharp instrument is thought to have made […]
Blantyre Lawn Tennis Club – Between 1910 and 1915, this local sports club established tennis courts and a pavilion at 81 Stonefield Road. The club arrangements were done through Mrs Catherine Weir of 16 Victoria Street. The club bought the land from the Trustees of John Clark Forrest. At that time the adjacent Bowling club were […]