This photo is Blantyre High School, pictured in 1998 (was that really almost 22 years ago?) Do you recognise anybody? Feel free to tag. Shared kindly by Carly Muldoon.
1998 Blantyre High School
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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 […]
1967 Search for High School Land
How strange it is to see a newspaper report, looking for land for the new Blantyre High School. This report was from March 1967, well before the High School was ever built, indicating the search had been going on for nearly 6 or 7 years beforehand. The report states, “It will be necessary to […]
1980’s Blantyre High Night out
Lena Elliott has shared this photo of a Blantyre High School staff night out. In the early 80’s the dinner ladies met at Hastie’s Farm. Date is likely 1984. Do you know any of the ladies pictured? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our […]
1984 Blantyre High Dinner Ladies
Going back now to 1984 and these ladies are the School Dinner staff at Blantyre High School. Shared here by Lena Elliott, some of their names are known. Morag? Sylvia McKean, Isa Anderson, Frieda Oliver, Jessie Shaw, May Docherty, Lena Blair, Rena McQueen, Jean Cameron. This looks like it was taken in the dinner […]
1978 Blantyre High Film Society
In November 1978, Blantyre High pupils and teachers were celebrating. The School’s Film Society had picked up 3 awards including a top award for “International Amateur Film of the Year”. Incredibly the winning film was chosen from 70 other entrants, many of them at University , rather than schools. The School won the Victor […]