UPDATE: This target has now been met! Thanks. Enjoying Blantyre Project? I’m on the ‘scrounge’. Can you please Donate a little to help with 2020 Running Costs? As a non-profit charitable website providing a FREE ancestry, research and community history archive service here and on Facebook, I unfortunately have unavoidable annual costs each December of […]
What an amazing month December has been for raising funds for Blantyre good causes. Today, we were able to pass Blantyre Telegraph a whopping £405 guaranteed royalties from sales of 121 books running up to and throughout the festive period! December book sales are always far higher than the rest of the year, but this […]
From the Glasgow Herald, Friday March 1st 1878, page 9, there’s a letter telling of the need for people to donate subscriptions towards the cost of the Stonefield Parish Church Construction on Glasgow Road, at the corner of Church Street. “NEW CHURCH AT STONEFIELD, BLANTYRE. Manse of Blantyre, 28th February, 1878. SIR,— Will you kindly insert […]
On 4th October 1860, James Clark of Crossbasket, High Blantyre was one of the subscribers donating heavily to the construction of the Wallace Monument in Stirling. The Stirling Observer Newspaper thanked everybody who subscribed. The National Wallace Monument (generally known as the Wallace Monument) is a tower standing on the summit of Abbey Craig […]