Another photo which is going to bring back a lot of memories for folk, not all of them great! It’s Blantyre High School, at the vehicle entrance on Boswell Drive. To people like myself who went to that school for many years, the building including outbuilding and playground will be familiar. I always thought Blantyre […]
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Inside Blantyre High, 1985
Well, this takes me back! The year is 1985 and pictured is the lower floor corridors inside the former, Blantyre High School. There will be thousands of people who will remember these narrow, brick lined corridors with their large heavy wooden swing doors. This was my secondary school corridor, where friendships formed, pranks were played, […]
1998 Blantyre High School
David Robertson, 1980
In 1980, this young Blantyre lad, David Robertson was only 18 years old but had already won himself a place in the elite of Britain’s Armed Forces, The Commandos. The former Blantyre High pupil had just completed a much harder regime of “schooling” at the Royal Marine Training Centre in Devon. He was instructed in […]
1977 Blantyre High
Former Blantyre High School Maths Teacher , Brian Mathieson contacted me recently with a nice 20 minute film that I’m sure will interest many people here. Brian digitised his 8mm film and has kindly made it available here. It’s silent and shows the Blantyre High pupils who went on a trip to France on an […]
1979 Blantyre High TV Team
Here’s the 1979 news from BHTV, read to you by Carolynn Kennedy and Margaret McCutcheon, Blantyre’s answer to Anna Ford and Angela Rippon! In June 1979, the pupils of Blantyre High School, set up their own experimental TV station! The school had the use of their own TV equipment and under the guidance of […]
1979 Blantyre High Pupils
A group of Blantyre High pupils were awarded certificates from Councillor Nancy Ballantyne on 8th June 1979 in recognition of their work to improve Strathclyde Park. Over the previous 2 months, the 10 lads from Blantyre High School on Boswell Drive, had worked at the park planting thousands of bulbs, creating benched areas for […]