Pictured here in 1980 are Blantyre High Office Staff. Sent in by Christine Gardner via Neil Scott, these five ladies are noted as: From left to right Betty Craig, Margaret MacFarlane, Ruth Sanderson, Christine Scott and Margaret McKenna. Do you recognise or remember these woman at this school?
Burnbrae Farm was a farm on the Eastern Parish Boundary, next to the Parkburn. It was located within Blantyre but was very close to the Hamilton Boundary. I’ve now started to collect some history on this property. Burnbrae Farm was often associated with a trio of Farms, Bellsfield, Birdsfield and Burnbrae. This was due to […]
Letterick, is an area immediately to the north of Greenhall, but just out the Parish boundary. It is still close enough though to Blantyre to be considered part of this area and feels closer to Blantyre than East Kilbride. It is accessed from the Dalton Road, leading off from Stoneymeadow. A mill stood on the […]
Sent in by Gerry Kelly, this photo dates from around 1969. Gerry told me, ” This is my wife’s uncle Hugh (Craig). He was a Blantyre institution but never married. He was always surrounded by nieces and nephews. The children pictured are my wife Nancy on the left , Ian and Hugh Craig “the twins” […]
On this signboard of this rare old photograph of the Westend Bar is “Robert Craig” Wine merchants. This proved that Robert Craig DID own two bars on Glasgow Road, one at either end. He owned the Clive Place (later to become the Old Original) and this one at the Westend. The Westend bar is not […]