When misfortune befell upon the Park family in Springtime 1904, a change in direction was needed. David Park and his family lived in Musselburgh but when he became unemployed, he decided to pursue work with William Baird as a miner at Craighead, Blantyre. The family packed up and left Musselburgh for good arriving in Blantyre […]
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More of Blantyre Ontario
I wrote last year about a little 19th Century town in Ontario, Canada called “Blantyre”. It had only 50 people living there and in modern times had become a “ghost town”. You can read the article here. https://blantyreproject.com/2015/12/16/the-canadian-blantyre/ I’ve now had a couple of Canadian ex-pats point out this little town to me, but nobody has […]