The monthly meeting of Blantyre School Board took place in mid November 1899, a meeting where debate arose about an important matter. A letter was read from local clergymen and teachers asking for permission to allow Blantyre’s schoolchildren to collect subscriptions towards the erection of a monument to David Livingstone. However, this wasn’t to be […]
Week commencing Monday 15th April 1907 saw a rather unique exhibition taking place every afternoon and evening that week in the former Stonefield Masonic Hall on Glasgow Road, Blantyre. Hosted by the Blantyre Gas Company, the promotional event displayed a range of stoves and cookery appliances, many of which were powered with gas. The cookers […]
This came up recently on my timeline. It’s not Blantyre but actually Douglas, South Lanarkshire. The occasion, 2 years ago was Agatha Christie filming in the village of Douglas and with family there, Annalily, my then 5 year old beautiful daughter decided to try for a walk on part! We dressed her in 1950’s style […]
Just across the River Clyde from Blantyre Priory stands Bothwell Castle, but many people may be surprised to know that immediately beside the castle, stood a massive house, large enough in itself to have been called a castle in its own right. It is sufficiently close to Blantyre’s boundary, for me to tell it’s story […]
Pictured here on 24th September 1965 is World War II RAF Hero Douglas Bader, putting a meringue after opening a new golf school at James Little Training house at High Blantyre. (At Crossbasket) Douglas Bader lost both his legs in an aircraft accident before World War II. He battled back to regain his Royal Air […]
There are few better known men in Blantyre than Mr Neil Douglas, who for the long standing period of an incredible 40 years discharged his duties of cashier at Blantyre Collieries, which belong to Messrs. William Dixon (Ltd.), and in that time he saw Blantyre grow from a mere country district of less than 4000 […]