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 1978. They were married in Burnbank Parish Church. Miss Jan Mauchline, of the Falls, Victoria Street married Mr Anthony Vettraino in 1978. Anthony was from […]
Today, I received a flurry of emails from Blantyre Project Archie Simm, who is currently on holiday in America. He’s staying at the MOST AMAZING venue! After a recent operation, Archie was taking some time out to holiday with his wife for their 40th Wedding Anniversary and decided to spend a 3 night stay at […]
Who remembers the speedway? Great action photo from early 1980s. This is after the speedway had moved over to Craighead Park. Industrialised Forrest Street behind.
It is with utmost pleasure and pride, I can exclusively reveal online an astonishing massive announcement for Blantyre! Strictly with permission from funders, and ahead of all Scottish media sources, comes the exciting news that Blantyre’s David Livingstone Centre has at last secured many millions of pounds of funding to renovate the centre and grounds. […]
Archie Brown was a market gardener and florist at Boathouse (Boat Jocks) from 1874 until 1912. Thanks to his great, granddaughter, Jenny Day, we’ve been looking at his remarkable diary from 1874 and 1875. In this last extract from April 1875, after which Archie or Arch got married to Christina Braid on June 11th 1875 at […]
Gilbert the Bakers – was a former post WW2, bakers shop and confectioner located at 10 Stonefield Road, next to Jimmy Sweenies the Butchers at the western side of the bottom of Stonefield Road, very close to the Old Original bar. The shop was known to be there in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s. […]
Margaret Campbell told me, “My great Grandfather came from Germany to work in Scotland, and met my great grandma, who was born there, eventually settling down in Blantyre. When the First World War broke out, and my grandfathers, father was interned they changed the family name to Slater. As a lot of other German […]