I’ve finally got round to looking at more ancestry requests. As you may know i’m happy to do that for free for anybody with a Blantyre connection. Moyra Lindsay wrote, “My great grandparents were Samuel Gilmour and Mary Ann Cook. My Granny was Elizabeth Gilmour known as ‘Lizzie’ born 1896. If you find the dates […]
On Friday 19th December 1862, a week before Christmas, police constable Andrew Cooper was going about his rounds on Burnbank Road when he saw three well known characters of the same family. John Cook (the father), Sarah Cook (the wife) and also Sarah Cook (daughter) were in the dark street carrying something bulky, struggling […]
Gordon Cook kindly recently shared this A3 poster with me, which he had typed up for the heritage group. The Blantyre Monument – After the destructive explosion of Monday 22nd October 1877, when the bodies of the miners who were killed had been recovered, and all burials had taken place, certain local people raised the […]
Thanks to Helen Williams for this photo. Pictured in the late 1950’s or possibly early 1960’s are coalmen of Blantyre. Pictured is Mr Prentice. Davie Cook is second from the left (who had one arm), and Jackie Turner far right. Other names associates with coal deliveries in Blantyre are Baillie, Barclay, Clark, Devanney, Downie, Dunn, Kelly, McCabe, McDougal, Prentice and Sneddon. Even in the 1970s, some […]
Blantyre Heritage Group Secretary, Gordon Cook is hosting a tour and talk of the site of the Blantyre disaster. Gordon has very kindly agreed to do this and and the (above ground!) tour commences on Wednesday, 18th of November from 11.00am. The tour will commence at Priestfield Car Park on High Blantyre Main Street and involve […]
A couple of photos archived, showing Crossbasket Castle before renovation. Taken around 2010. Photos by Gordon Cook.
Thanks to Gordon Cook, for sending me this information relating to a legal dispute in the 1870’s around the sinking of the Lady Nancy Mine. The article refers to a farmer, named George Barclay, who had leased the Farm of Greenhall from John Wardrop Moore. The farmlands were fully 66 acres. Without any consultation or […]