Today is remembrance Sunday. Blantyre remembers its war victims with 2 outdoor services on later today at 3.00pm at High Blantyre Cenotaph and at Auchentibber War Memorial. As always, on behalf of the whole community of Blantyre and of course those abroad who want to pay their respects, I’ve arranged for two beautiful wreaths. These […]
Impressive Scenes took place at Blantyre on Sunday 31st August 1919. Almost one hundred years go, one of the largest parades ever seen in Blantyre took place that Sunday afternoon when a procession of military, demobilised men, Masonic Lodges, and Friendly Societies marched through the principal streets to the Parish Church at High Blantyre. A […]
There’s a good description of the Remembrance Day service in a local newspaper on 14th November 1942. How much more personal this service must have been to the people , actually experiencing the war and losing those men in those same years. “A very large turnout of the Blantyre Company of the Home Guard under […]