Markets – When Blantyre was made a Burgh in 1599, the weekly market was fixed to take place on a Thursday and an annual fair was to be granted on 14th October “for buying and selling of flesh, fish, oxen, sheep, meal, peas, corn, barley, linen and woollen cloth skins and all other goods, […]
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Blantyre’s Festive Event 2014
As some of you know, I’ve been involved with Blantyre Community Committee this year, and along with four other people have helped organise the town’s Christmas Event. The Festive Lights Switch on and Market took place yesterday Sunday 30th November 2014 and was such an amazing success with the largest Christmas market ever seen in […]


