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 […]
Today’s advert is again from 1950, but this time for R Brown Builders. R Brown & Co (Builders) Ltd were local builders in Blantyre based at 79 Calder Street during the 1940’s and 1950s. Their phone number was Blantyre 266. Does anybody remember the Brown family or when they ceased trading?
Thank you to Duncan Slater for sending over these photos of Blantyre Scout’s Camp to Inverary in 1947. Duncan has kindly named the people he recognised, which is always a plus point in older photos. Are you related to or know anybody in these?
Photographed here in the mid 1930’s are Blantyreferme Pits 1 and 2. Captured from the Clyde Bridges looking back to Blantyrefereme Bing, Fin Me Oot would be behind the horizon. Around the time of this picture, a few safety incidents occurred, a couple proving fatal. Five men were affected a serious, gassing accident in the Blantyre […]