On December 6, 1892, Blantyre merchants held a grand annual dance at Struthers’ Masonic Hall. Over 40 couples enjoyed the lively music of Bergman’s Band, hosted by Michael Paton. Highlights included performances by Miss Fullarton and young Master McCaffrie, making it a memorable and successful evening in Blantyre’s social history.
On Friday 29th November 1929, the employees of the Blantyre Engineering Company Ltd, held their annual dance in the Masonic Hall on Glasgow Road. Employees were permitted to bring along a partner and judging by the happy faces and attendance, it looks like it was a great night! Styles were changing. The straight, short bobbed […]
The Daisy Brown Dance School, was run by Mrs Brown of Glasgow Road in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950’s. Mrs Brown was part of an enterprising couple who also owned the Dookit Cinema next door to the east side of their dance school. Daisy and her husband Jack Brown, who was the manager […]
“The women who have given evidence have shown commendable pluck in the face of threats,” said the fiscal, Mr D. W. Hiddleston, Hamilton J.P. Court when four High Blantyre men were up in the court for assault on 30th August 1935. In one of the cases, sentence of sixty days’ imprisonment was imposed. The accused were […]