Blantyre Project reader, Deirdre MacKinnon shared this photo of an object she recently found. She had been walking by the River Gryffe between Bridge of Weir and Houston. While exploring a small shingle beach by the river, she found an old oval engraved metal plate, 9 inches long and 6 inches wide. It is engraved […]
In 1980, this young Blantyre lad, David Robertson was only 18 years old but had already won himself a place in the elite of Britain’s Armed Forces, The Commandos. The former Blantyre High pupil had just completed a much harder regime of “schooling” at the Royal Marine Training Centre in Devon. He was instructed in […]