The content reflects on a historical photograph taken 120 years ago, featuring a boy by the Rotten Calder river near the old Milheugh Bridge, which was demolished in the 1950s. It contemplates the boy’s perspective on the image’s enduring significance, as generations have since come and gone.
On 20th January 1894, a Blantyre boy made the news owing to a particular emergency surgery. The boy named Robert Paterson, residing at High Blantyre was playing amongst his mother’s things, when he accidentally swallowed a hairpin. It got stuck in his throat, a frightening experience not just for him, but his alarmed family too! […]
In January 1912, a Blantyre boy named Robert Anderson, 12 years of age, (the stepson of William Gilmour, who lived at 5 Dixon Street), met with an accident which proved a most serious matter for him. Young Robert was standing watching some other boys throwing stones, but taking no part in it himself, when he […]
Sadly, and despite best efforts, I don’t know the names of this boy and girl, standing posing for the camera in a field. But they are amongst a collection of Blantyre photos taken between 1895 and 1915. So the photo serves simply as “eyes into the past” and an indication of the type of clothes […]
Blantyre boy Gil Farid (aged 6) had a miraculous escape in September 1978, after surviving electrocution from overhead lines! Gil was lucky to be alive after being hit with a 25,000 v shock off the overhead lines above Low Blantyre Station. Gil, along with friends, had picked up a 12 foot piece of wire […]
This photo is from 1904. A boy stands patiently on the banks of the River Clyde awaiting the small ferry boat, to take him across to the Uddingston side of the river. A unique image that somehow I think portrays a slight sadness or loneliness .
OK, I need your help for this one. Both of these photos were taken in Summer 1978 in Glasgow Road. I’m hoping through the power of Blantyre Project’s social media page that the little blonde boy and his mother can be identified. He looks about 4 or 5 years old, meaning he was likely […]