On Saturday 14th August 1922, three young Blantyre lads, John King, John Hay, and William Wallace decided to have a game of football. Nothing strange there at the end of school summer holidays. However, it was their footie venue that caused a problem! The boys who lived locally, went to Mr Thomas Watson’s field adjoining […]
Our suggestion that there was a stable or small field opposite the Toll House on Glasgow Road is an interesting one and needed further investigation. At a time before any elderly recollections and not previously written about, this book explores these old 19th Century group of buildings, which during the 1850’s were the only buildings […]
Barnhill Quoiting Club is noted in 1900 as doing well financially, being well supported by local gentlemen. They had a tea in a room in the Barnhill Tavern provided by Mrs Stoddart (the co-owner of Barnhill Tavern) and some of their prizewinners were, J. Dick. J. Craig, J. Campbell, W. Ford, D. Morrison, R. Ford, J. […]
From 1923, on the left is my grandmother Mary Danskin (later to become Duncan). In the middle is my great grandmother Agnes Danskin (nee Hunter) and on the right my gran’s sister. At the time, the family owned the drapers shop at the corner of Broompark Road/ Stonefield Road which we now recognise as the […]