Pictured between 1900 and 1903 are 2 little boys playing at Shuttle Row, Blantyre Village Works. They look to be shaking hands and clearly having some fun. Behind them on the right is the 2 storey part of the building now roughcast and used as offices. To put this in a modern context, the […]
A story shared by Reeni Kennedy, in their own words: “James Farrell, my 2nd great grandfather (1864 – 1898) hailed from Ireland, I have not discovered which part yet nor at what point did he come to Scotland. There is no way of telling whether he met Mary Bradley (1866 – 1947) in Stranraer, where […]
A letter sent into the Hamilton Advertiser on 10th September 1897 by a Frederick Farrell, asks that if Blantyre Miners are to form a Union, as had been attempted previously, it should not be undertaken lightly. The correspondence to the newspaper reads, “Sir, As another attempt is to be made to organise and get the […]