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St Joseph’s RC Church

August 3, 2022

On Saturday 17th June 1905, the Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly Newspaper issued an article to let excited readers know about the handsome new church which had just been erected for the congregation of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Blantyre. It says, “The edifice will be solemnly and formally opened tomorrow (Trinity Sunday) by […]

Blantyre Described in the 1880’s

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June 22, 2015

Blantyre Documents, Blantyre Places

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Now this post may prompt a few interesting comments. Andra McAnulty in the 1880’s described Blantyre “A village of a kind, but, as a matter of fact, it was nothing more than a clay hole.” Around the same time, A Glasgow Herald reporter came to the village and said, that like many colliery communities, High […]