Sanny McVicar handed in these excellent photos of the 1988 Blantyre Highland Games. Pictured is Andy and Hercules the Bear, as well as some of the strongmen competing in the various strongman challenges. Located in the large field behind Bardykes House, the games were popular each year attended by many thousands of people. Whats […]
My friend Alex Rochead showed me this photo, kindly sent to him from Sandy Wilkie. It is of course a poster for the much remembered, Blantyre Highland Games. A great little piece of Blantyre nostalgia. Sandy was of course directly and primarily involved in the Highland Games, which took place for the first time in […]
Blantyre & District Round Table – The local community organisation for men, formed in 1974 and continued until the early 1990’s. As well as all their charity work, arranging fetes and events, they are notably remembered in Blantyre for their large-scale community event, which was the Blantyre Highland Games, which ran for 3 years […]
These photos were kindly shared by Jim Cochrane and feature Hercules the Bear and trainer Andy Robin, at Blantyre Highland Games in Summer 1989. The games were in their 3rd year and Hercules was a star attraction, pulling big crowds for being well known at the time. The pictures show how strong Hercules was, […]
Run by Blantyre Round Table, the 1989 saw the 3rd annual Blantyre Highland Games in the fields at Bardykes, on the lower slopes behind Wilkies Farm. Jim Cochrane has kindly shared these photos here. Do you recognise anybody? Feel free to tag them. The stars that particular year were Hercules the Bear and various members […]
Kevin Creechan has sent in these photos of Blantyre Highland Games. I’ve been looking at the games recently and near being able to write up an article for them. Meantime though, I can add some detail to these photos. They were taken on Sunday 31st May 1987 at Blantyre’s Inaugural Highland games. I can remember […]