Continued from Blantyre Vics Part 1 The current and present club that arose from the ashes was formed in 1900, but again as juniors. The team were reconstructed that year as a professional football team. The story is that the team was formed from a crowd of boys who hung around the corner of Rosendale, […]
Blantyre Project already contains the largest collection of history and photos, about the many Blantyre Football teams over the decades, but in recent weeks, I’ve been expanding some of the detail. This week I’ll be telling the story in unprecedented detail of Blantyre Victoria Football Club (Blantyre Vics). Don’t worry if you’re not into […]
Today, I want to honour somebody contemporary who does so much for Blantyre and deserves his story to be told. Mr. William Gallacher is better known as Billy. Billy is one of Blantyre’s contemporary and recognised personalities of present day Blantyre. He is most known as being an ex footballer and associated with Old Parish […]
This photo is thought to be Blantyre Vics, taken in the early 1920s. With their familiar dark shirts and lights shorts of the era, socks with distinctive stripes. The location is unknown but may have been at Castle Park, at Forrest Street. Blantyre Victoria Football Club are long established in Blantyre and won the […]
This incredible high resolution photograph is of Blantyre Victoria (Vics) Football Club. Taken at the end of their award winning 1892 – 1893 season, incredibly the Blantyre photo is 122 years old! When Jack Bethel asked if I would like to scan a copy of it, I was excited to see all the people […]
These two photos are of Blantyre Vics. Playing from their Castle Park grounds at Forrest Street, the teams pictured are in 1992 and 1996. Amongst the 1992 team are Dougie Borland, Tommy MacDonald, Stevie McHugh and Harry McDade. The 1996 photo, (the one with the wee boy at front) includes Tommy Goodwin, Jim Allan, John Paul […]
Blantyre Vics Football Club pictured at Castle Park, Forrest Street in the late 1930s. Perhaps you recognise a parent, or uncle, or grandfather?