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A couple of weeks ago, Blantyre Project reader, Andy Gardner was visiting the Harwich Redoubt which is a Napoleonic era fort in Essex, England (pictured). I’m told is was still in use during WWII. So you can imagine his surprise when touring the cells, when inside one, he noticed some preserved prisoner graffiti from 1940 […]
Showing previously unseen photos, from my own private collection, this is the Eastern Caldergrove Lodge House. Pictured around 1898, you can see Priory Bridge on the left hand side. Caldergrove Lodge House (East) – is a current sandstone house situated near Low Blantyre. Within the Parish of Cambuslang, it sits just over the boundary of […]
Lori McCulloch messaged, “Thomas Stewart Brown 1878-1941 High Blantyre Cemetery; Grave Number: 245675. Married to Eliza Aitchison m. 1898. Lived at 71 Merry’s Rows and 116 Calder Street. My great grandfather. Any info much appreciated.” I managed to find out a little more. Thomas Stewart Brown was born on 28th November 1878 at Stonefield, Blantyre. […]
More weddings from 1979! Do you know these couples? Miss Connie SUEN of Wishaw married David TSIM of Dalcraig Crescent, Blantyre in the Welcome Restaurant, Cambuslang. Also, East Kilbride man Hamish Cormack married Moyra Turnbull of Forres Street, High Blantyre in the Blantyre Congregational Church. Finally, but by no means least, happy couple Janette Cumberford […]
Some more weddings from late in 1978 of various Blantyre folk. Do you know these people? First couple is a Blantyre couple who were married in 1978 in St Andrew’s Church. Miss Anne Sim of Devondale Avenue married John Nicholas of Atholl Court. Photographs were taken by Hughes Photography. The next couple are also both […]
Sunday 9th March 1958 certainly started with a bang in High Blantyre! When Royal Engineers carried out the demolition of High Blantyre’s Dixon’s Pit, a demolition that the National Coal Board thought would cost nothing, ended up being quite costly! The Territorials were demolishing the old washing plant at High Blantyre Pit that day, but the […]
Neil Brown messaged me, “A few years ago I got interested in genealogy – however it has been a difficult task because my father, who knew quite a bit about the family passed away in 1958 and as a young man was not much interested in learning about family history. Since I know the family […]
All fruit grown at Boathouse, Blantyre (i.e, Apples, Pears, Plums and various Berry fruits) were stocked in the local shops belonging to the Brown family. The Brown’s shops were located at 83 Main Street, Union Buildings, Uddingston, Baillieston was c/oStark 110 Main Street, and the third was in Bothwell. After Archibald died in 1912 and […]
I’m sharing this photo for no other reason than simply it is an astonishingly beautiful photo. Taken by local man Jim Brown in Autumn 2016, it shows a wealth of contrasts and colours. A horse captured by the lens, with Autumnal Calder trees in the background. Jim has many thousands of amazing Blantyre photos, but […]