Daniel Crane (68), a Blantyre miner lived on Glasgow Road during the 1920’s. On Saturday 11th August 1924, that summer evening he had been enjoying some well earned time off work, fishing at Crawford with friends. As light faded, he boarded a tramcar at Motherwell Cross ready to head home to Blantyre but around 10pm […]
Although this family photo was taken at Ardgarten, not far from Arrochar, it does feature 2 Blantyre people. Shared by Anthony Smith, this is little Anthony in August 1952 along with his grandfather Nickodemus Kakta who lived at Baird’s Rows. Anthony told me, “I never knew my grandmother and hardly knew my grandfather.” The […]
Shared with Blantyre Project in May 2015, are these 2 photos. Blantyre man, Andy Bain took them both whilst out walking down at the River Clyde. The first shows a group of young men and women filming “something” under the David Livingstone Bridge. No other info on that picture. The other , near the weir, […]