1966 Installing Culvert at High Blantyre
This next cine was shared by Sanny McVicar who worked in 1966 on the construction of the new East Kilbride Expressway Phase 1. The film features the installation of the […]
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1960s Disused Railway & Basket Cine
This next cine film was taken in the early 1960s. Featuring boys playing on the disused railway which cut through the middle of Blantyre. Also a local family camping trip […]
Glasgow Road South – New Book launched!
With so much going on personally in April, I’ve decided against a book launch in a local venue and just going to quietly launch my exciting new book, here now […]
Blantyre’s Population
The Population of any village or town usually relates census information and that which collates employment and housing opportunities. This has been fairly true over the centuries for Blantyre but […]
Blantyre 2017: Review of the Year
My other website “Blantyre Telegraph” records all the contemporary news as it happens in Blantyre, often exclusively announcing news ahead of official reporting sources and newspapers. For the last 6 […]
Herbertson Street, Blantyre
Researching the origins of Herbertson Street proved more difficult than first thought. Nobody has previously written how Herbertson Street acquired its name when postal addresses were allocated around 1910 […]
1978 Weddings of Blantyre folk
More weddings of Blantyre folks! This time all Blantyre girls, marrying men from outwith Blantyre in 1978. In Autumn 1978, Miss Margaret Doonin of 124 Auchinraith Road married Ian […]
1978 Weddings of Blantyre folk
In 1978, Miss A. Hill of 22 Lochalsh Place and Mr James McGhie of Hamilton were married in the Livingstone Memorial Church. Also that summer, Miss Christine Little of […]
1978 Blantyre Weddings
Some more Blantyre Weddings from 1978 for you! Do you recognise anybody? Miss Gail MORTON of Hillhouse married Mr Clive PURVIS of 14 Greenhall Place, High Blantyre in late Spring […]