This photo was taken on 8th August 1963 Low Blantyre outside Shuttle Row, birthplace of David Livingstone. Now, it would be common for many Blantyre families to have a similar Summer photo in their albums, but there is something special about this event and indeed the lucky child to the right. He was the 2,000,000th […]
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David Dale’s Mills
David Dale was a Scottish entrepreneur who was instrumental in establishing Scotland’s cotton milling industry. He was born in Ayreshire in 1739. In 1783 he met Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the spinning frame, at a dinner in Glasgow. Next day the pair went to the Falls of Clyde to see if the power […]
Ramble by the River
This author of this account is lost in time now, but was likely written by a Victorian tourist in the mid 1880s. Such accounts of our town and it’s beauty need to be preserved in time, along with this wonderful old photo. “The line between Glasgow and Blantyre, a distance of some seven miles, passes […]