Jim Cochrane sent in this family photo. Pictured in 1910, Jim told me, “The Marshall Children Round about the time they may have moved to Calderside Farm. My grandfather John Marshall is Front Right his older brother Jimmy is standing behind him. His older sister Mary is Back Left and Younger Sister Jean Marshall Front […]
David Livingstone Centre, just shortly after the centre had opened. This photo dates from around 1930. Sitting on the wall are 2 children at David Livingstone Centre sitting on one of the newly constructed stone dyke walls. Behind is Shuttle Row birthplace of David Livingstone. The area had undergone a huge transformation in those recent […]
I like this photo. Such a happy, playful scene. In 1936, seven years after the David Livingstone Centre opened, part of the outdoor attractions was an outdoor paddling pool. This photo from 1936 shows how busy the pool was with young children, almost 30 of them at this one time, laughing and splashing. It has […]
HOUSES ROCKED BY BLAST Children hurt in Army Exercise A motor car roof was smashed, windows and doors were blown out, and two small children were cut by flying glass when the soldiers of the soldiers of the Territorial Army blew up a 40ft. high washing plant at Dixon’s Colliery, High Blantyre, Lanarkshire, on Sunday […]
On 22nd October 2014, it will have been 137 years since the Blantyre Pit Explosion that killed 215 men and boys. Robert Stewart approached me recently with an idea for an article that remembered not only the men that died, but also so many children of such a young age. It’s easy to forget when […]
These two photographs were taken one after another in 1948 on the same day. Pictured are children playing at Priory Pit, Low Blantyre. The identity of the children are unknown with exception of the boy on the right who is Frank Gilluly. You can read about the Blantyre Priory Pit story here
This happy photograph was sent to us from Arlene Green and is reprinted here with her permission. Arlene told us “1953. The Queen’s Coronation and Blantyre village children are having a street party. The wee girl at the front right is my mum Margaret MacFarlane. The lady behind her is Colette Orr and the lady […]