This coin was found at Blantyre Priory a couple of decades ago. It’s a British coin, the currency being a halfpenny, belonging to the time of George III. It’s being dated to 1806! Around 3cm in diameter, the coin which is over 215 years old is fairly worn and is held for safe keeping at […]
15th February 1971 was a very different kind of D day. Today, marks the 50 year anniversary of Decimalisation, when our old coins turned to the more familiar coins we have today. Who remembers this? Any stories to tell?A great little video about this can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yE-wA24xJ8
A newspaper article from nearly 250 years ago! From the Middlesex Journal London, May 17th – 19th 1770. “A few days ago, while some labourers were employed in sinking a well at Blantyre in Scotland, they dug up a couple of copper vessels full of antique Roman silver coins, struck in the reign of Augustus.” The […]
Of what use is money? The query is prompted by an incident in October 1944, following the departure of a Canadian Forces’ bridegroom and his Canadian groomsman for the wedding service a Blantyre Church. They had evidently been carefully initiated into the old Scots custom of ” Bowl Money,” the prospects of easy ” riches […]
Everybody loves a Blantyre wedding. Such a joyous union was planned on the afternoon of Monday 8th January 1866 at Barnhill, outside the tavern. As guests gathered at Bardykes Road for a quick glimpse of the bride, one such person had more on his agenda than wishing the couple well. Indeed, his intentions were to […]