Pictured in this previously unseen photo from between 1900 – 1905 are High Blantyre children. Photographed by David Ritchie, perhaps near his home at School Lane, 4 of the 10 children in this picture have no shoes, treading the streets of Blantyre in their tough, bare feet. The photo illustrates the following narrative very well. […]
Tuesday 23rd February 1915 saw Blantyre woman Mary Borden (or Duffy) up in Hamilton Sheriff Court upon the insistence of Blantyre School Board. Mary, of 37 Hall Street, Blantyre was facing an attendance order for her 4 children not attending school. It was stated that as her husband was currently serving in the army, she […]
An interesting story about a Blantyre family taken from “The History of the Livingstone Memorial Church dated 1877-1927 by Rev Thos. A. Hugh, M.A” and I quote: “Mr. and Mrs George MacLachlan, for many years members of this congregation, had three sons killed in the 1877 Blantyre Explosion. Twenty three years later in 1900, they […]