Louise Rennie shared this old photo of the bungalow property at 313 Glasgow Road. I’ve actually got a few notes on this house and was able to add: This plot of land was previously not built upon until the middle of the 20th Century. Originally farm-fields of Wheatlandhead Farm, the plot is adjacent to a council […]
The last of Margaret Stewart’s interesting photos from her family album. Kindly shared here from 1918, with a likely Blantyre interest is a nurse and who appears to be a decorated French soldier. The other photo, also with people unidentified shows a dining room set up, perhaps in a French hospital for medical staff. This […]
Bungalow (Eastern) Constructed: 1950’s Other Names: Unknown Constructor: Unknown Original Address: 313 Glasgow Road House Type: Bungalow Current Address: 313 Glasgow Road Brief Summary: This plot of land was previously not built upon until the middle of the 20th Century. Originally farm-fields of Wheatlandhead Farm, the plot is adjacent to a council owned lane […]
The Hamilton Advertiser reported when wounded WW1 soldiers were brought to Auchentibber and entertained, with local business owners presenting them with gifts and honours for their bravery. The report on Saturday 2nd September 1916 told: “The military age portion of the village Auchentibber have done nobly in this war, as witness the Roll of Honour which […]
From time to time, i lend my time to assisting people with ancestry and finding where they originated from. One such enquiry for assistance came from John Sutton, who on New Years Day 2014 wrote to me with the following message. “Hi. I’m trying to trace my grandfathers family. He was John Sneddon b1900. Blantyre. […]
Gordon French of 313 Glasgow Road, Blantyre was just 18 months when a photographer captured this photograph in 1953 of his cherub like pose, fixing some large dahlias at the Kelvin Hall Flower Show in September of that year. Source: Picture is courtesy of Dundee Courier. Catherine Morrison Is that the French,s that had the sewing […]