Blantyre Works Funeral Society was a former local institution which operated to provide funeral services for bereaved families. The society was instituted in 1821 largely due to the Village at Blantyre works which was growing at that time. A large community had been created at the mills operated by Henry Monteith & Co and where […]
Need some help with these photos. They’re undated but I suspect may be the early 1980s. The location is known. The Clyde Braes, leading down to the River Clyde, not far from Station Road. The old works cemetery is in the photo, so its before the houses were built at Caskie Drive. What year do […]
When Monteith created his Village at Low Blantyre at Blantyre Works, it had the mills, houses, shops, education and religious outlets. As the workers grew old, or ill and died, it became necessary to have a graveyard and so a small plot of land with four sides was chosen on the Clyde Braes, near […]
I have long since been interested in the little Blantyre Works Cemetery, so this extract from Hamilton Advertiser on 12th April 1930 proved very informative. The cemetery is no longer there but is now the site of a modern housing estate in the Village. “In the little village graveyard at Low Blantyre, now, unfortunately, desecrated and […]