Continuing the story of Auchinraith Pit Disaster which happened on Saturday 30th August 1930. Continued from Part 9 yesterday. Today we’re again looking at the funerals of the victims and how this affected the community in Blantyre. The four Silver bands played appropriate music and the weird notes of the piper’s lament seemed to lend […]
Some research I did earlier this month for Janet Dunsmuir. John Anderson Black,the son of John Black (a ploughman) and Flora Anderson was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire Scotland in 1866. Flora had been married before with maiden surname Reid. By the early 1890’s John had come to Glasgow to seek employment, which he found in […]
A bricklayer, Frank Dunsmuir (27), was the hero of a fire which broke out in the early hours in the morning of Wednesday 28th December 1949 in his father’s home at 29 Springwell Crescent Blantyre. The house, which still exists today is a four-apartment upstairs dwelling, that time in the county council housing scheme. The occupier was […]
Dusmuirs Drapers Shop – was located at the corner of Stonefield Road and Broompark Road. Formerly Danskins, Dunsmuirs bought over the shop sometime in the 1940’s. Mr and Mrs Dunsmuir ran the business. In 1950 John Dunsmuir’s shop specialised in Children’s Wear, Ladies Wear, Gents underwear and wools. It also sold hardware at their […]
You may recognise this building, for it still looks very similar and exists today. Its the former Collinses Newsagents shop at the corner of Stonefield Road and Broompark Road. Shared here by Bill Duncan, this previously unseen photo likely dates from the 1940’s and features the drapers known as Dunsmuirs. Previous to this, the shop […]
The “Arctic Convoys – Men and Ice” exhibition opens this Monday in Edinburgh and tells the stories of survivors of the Arctic Convoys. These were the brave sailors who worked in some of the harshest conditions of the war, on board ships, on frozen, icy waters in bitter cold Arctic winds, all the time fearing the German U-boats below. The […]
How fortunate we are to live in the times we do. Two recent photos sent in by Susan Dunsmuir brought it home just how tough things were, when generations of the same family went off to make the ultimate sacrifices and fight for their loved ones and their country in times of war. Pictured here […]