In March 1978 Blantyre Civic Week and Gala Committee gathered together in the Miner’s Welfare to pick winners of their competition. Members of the Blantyre Miner’s Welfare were each allocated a horse in the Grand National the previous week and on the first week in April, their winning tickets were turned into prize money. […]
On 22nd October 1944, after a long procession of mothers had been interviewed regarding children’s absenteeism at Blantyre School Management Committee, a new member inquired why the mothers invariably appeared to these type of meetings, although the fathers were legally responsible, and it was they who were summoned. No one could explain, but it was […]