Thank you to Gail Duncan, for sharing these photos. The date is 1971, the location, Low Blantyre Public Park at Stonefield. These Gala day photos show Gail’s aunt being crowned Gala Queen. Gail told me, “My aunts name at the time was Joan hunter and she was Blantyre YMCA gala queen the newspaper one shows […]
I’ve uncovered this excellent photo of Blantyre Village gala day taken in 1969 at David Livingstone Centre. Tthis gala day had various guests of honour. Andrew Cruickshank, who played Dr. Cameron in ‘Dr. Finlay’s Casebook’, and Winnie Ewing SNP MP were the special VIP guests and pictured also is the gala queen and attendants. (You […]
X factor contestant and runner up, Nicholas McDonald proved a hit with the young ladies yesterday when he turned up to open High Blantyre Old Parish Gala day. I was along in my Blantyre Project capacity to raise some funds for charity. It was touch and go for a time with the wind and rain […]
Thanks to Monica Boath for permitting permission of this photo from 1980. I’ve not seen many photos of the old decorated floats from Blantyre Gala day, so this was a rare treat. As part of Blantyre Community Committee, we looked at bringing back floats to gala days at Blantyre, but insurance and halt and safety […]