This photo is from 1988. Roslyn Elliott was Asda’s Blantyre Gala Queen. The parade left the goods entrance at the back of the store to Victoria St, along Glasgow Rd, down John St and into the public park. All the fun of the fair with organised children’s races. Even the weather was kind. Pictured with […]
Tracing Blantyre Gala Roots back, pictured here is he very first ever Blantyre Gala Queen on 3rd July 1937. Some 2 years before the Second World War, at Castle Park (Vics Grounds at Forrest Street), Helen McLelland was crowned and pictured in the local newspaper. Helen was a pupil of Low Blantyre School. The […]