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Friday, 8th December 1893 saw 2 Blantyre men up in court, charged with trying to start a full scale riot. William Smith and William Hamill, both miners of Dixon’s Rows, Stonefield were charged with riotous conduct the previous Monday night, by brandishing an iron poker or bar and their rhetoric causing a large crowd to […]
I’ve been looking at the hardships in Blantyre during Summer 1894 when the Miners strike caused so many families to be starving and destitute. by August, things were so bad that the authorities sought to reduce the relief being given to the poor by sixpence, in order to help fund a further £40 towards the […]
Shortly after the lockdowns ended, local resident Jean McLean and I met where she kindly gave Blantyre Project a nice gift. It was a student project she did many years ago in the early 1960s and the subject matter was “Blantyre”. Bound in a nice folder, Jean all those years ago wrote an historical survey […]
Something to look forward to here after Easter. A new module for Blantyre Project website, shared on this page daily. Photos of Blantyre places and people, some previously not yet seen online, all between 105-130 years old. Each brought to life through restoration and the addition of colour. As an example of quality here’s two […]
Almost Ready The largest building EVER to be built in our town, is almost constructed and will open its doors in September 2018. Indeed some students have already taken up courses and started on 3rd September. We’re talking of course about the ‘University of the West of Scotland‘ (UWS) new state of the art buildings […]
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 large culvert, which would later be deeply buried below the new road. The first phase of the EK Expressway was built in 1966 and 1967. […]