Pictured here in 1908 in Broompark Avenue in exceptional clarity and high resolution is little Blantyre boy, Robert Ritchie. Photographed by David Ritchie (a distant relative of mine), Robert stands outside the door of his house in good clothes indicative of Sunday best, or perhaps part of a band or club? He lived at the second […]
On Tuesday evening of 12th April 1881, a fatal accident happened to John Urquhart Sillar, age 6. He was the Blantyre son of Mr Sillar, inspector of the poor in Blantyre Parish. With another boy, young John was playing near the bridge in course of erection in connection with the High Blantyre and East Kilbride […]
Pictured here in 1905 at the corner of Blakely’s pub, High Blantyre is a miners boy, out on an errand. Standing at the corner junction of Main Street and Broompark Road, he poses for the camera, putting down his heavy load of several pick heads, likely being taken to be sharpened. Gordon Cook recently told […]
Shortly after five o’clock on Friday 7th January 1938, a fatality occurred on Glasgow road at Blantyre, when Joseph Meechan (7), residing with his grandparents, Mr and Mrs John Meechan, 6 Alpine Street, Blantyre, was instantly killed. The boy darted across the road, and within 50 yards of his home was knocked down by a […]
A nine year old local Blantyre boy appeared at the local Juvenile Court on Thursday 4th March 1938 before Bailie Pomphrey. It was explained to the Fiscal that the boy had caused a great deal of trouble in the past, and he had been missing from home for some time, on several occasions. On December […]