Every now and again some little gems arrive into Blantyre Project. Like this amazingly clear photo of Calder Street School pupils, taken in 1936. Shared here by former local School teacher, Morag Glen, via Blantyre Heritage Group, this is a great photo, not only for its detail, but because almost all the names are known! […]
Small, Mr. William B – b1873 –d1944 was a Scottish Trade Unionist. Small was the son of William Small, a draper in Blantyre who became a prominent trade union leader. William B. Small, as he was generally known to distinguish him from his (more famous) father, undertook a legal apprenticeship, but then in 1903, […]
Blue-eyed Jessie McCulloch McCutcheon returned to her comfortable Blantyre home in June 1930, after being missing for 10 days. The 16-year-old girl had been employed at an Ayrshire farm when she vanished, and her mother had made many anxious inquiries, though these proved fruitless. When the family was reunited, Jessie was once more happy by the side of […]
A few Blantyre boys made a most remarkable find in early October 1930. Whilst over the river, roaming about Bothwell Castle in search of brambles, a number of Blantyre boys found a heavy Colt service revolver, part of a soldier’s uniform, and several other articles of clothing. Their curiosity was aroused by a ‘hidden’ brown paper […]
I was invited in November 2015, to take a photo at Auchinraith Primary School, something interesting from days gone by, now in the playground. Two of the 4 sandstone blocks, once saying “Blantyre Parish School Board” on the front of the former school, were salvaged in 2010 and are now used as a benches for […]
Nancy Riise Kvamsdal emailed me in November 2015 saying, “Hi again, I love your FBpage. I would like to ask if you know anything about an address: 3 Govern Street, Blantyre. My greatgrand parents lived on that address from around 1904-1919, their names were Henry Broadley and Bridget Broadley, m.s McManus. I have a […]
A boy , Charles McGuinness aged 5 was run down and sadly killed when he ran out into the road at the labour exchange, where scores of people had been standing on Friday 27th January 1933. He had been running from Victoria Street on his way to school when the van accidentally ran him over, […]