Well, here’s a brick that was actually used to build part of “Fin Me Oot” (Caldervale). To be more precise, it was used to build the outdoor washhouse. When former ‘Fin Me Oot’ resident Gerard McGarry came back to Blantyre from the United States in 1994, memories of his childhood growing up at Fin Me […]
Mr George Bradford – Born in 1925 in Muirkirk, George was a popular secondary school English teacher from the mid to late 20th Century. He initially taught at Gallowflat School in Rutherglen in the mid 1950’s. By the 1960’s, he was still living in Rutherglen and travelling to Blantyre for work, he was known locally […]
The Blantyre Picture Theatre was constructed in 1913 on Glasgow Road near the corner of Alpine Street. It was the first cinema in the area to show reels of film and proved an instant hit with the entire population, young and old alike. Built by EH Bostok, It proved an important local role in the […]