A great photo from Elizabeth Cardoo (Anderson). Pictured are a well behaved group of children down at The Village Prefabs. Elizabeth told us she is at the bottom left corner. In the photograph are also kids from Anderson, Dolan, Devine,Payne,Finlay,Greenhorn families. Elizabeth went on to tell us, “there were so many kids in that street […]
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Discouraging Blantyre Children
We take sports as an important and vital part of school activities these days. One of the most popular sports being Football. It’s fun, exciting, very social and with health benefits. Rightly so. However, things were very different a 100 years ago. During November 1905 the Blantyre School Board Chairman reported his concern that there […]
Barrack Children Orphans
David Dale’s Mill in Low Blantyre’s Village also had children in his labour force known as Barrack Children. These were orphans between the ages of six and twelve who had been adopted from the parish authorities by the Manager of Blantyre Works. Ironically, some of them were children of parents who had died in Milling […]