This particular request was a difficult one to resolve. A while back, I received a request saying, “Please can you help me. I’m looking for the birth of Philip Patrick Finney or Feeney who was born on 24th June 1912 in Blantyre. I cannot find the birth record anywhere. His father was killed in the […]
You’ll remember I recently posted about Jennifer Swantek’s, “Reid” family. Well, here’s another interesting connection and fabulous photo. Pictured here in the 1920’s is Jennifer’s great, great grandmother Martha Reid (nee McLachlan), wife of John Reid. She’s standing at the entrance to Gate Cottage, a former Blantyre houses once situated on the right hand side (eastern […]
An eight-ton steam waggon, left unattended at Blantyre railway station on Monday 14th October 1929, just one week after the Livingstone Centre opened caused considerable alarm when it ran amock in the Village. It all started, when it is alleged, by two boys who tampered with the oil tanker and it ran backwards across the […]
Two blood transfusions were given in one week by a Blantyre labourer in an effort to save the life of a 13-year-old boy, the son of fellow-worker, but were sadly unsuccessful. The boy, Douglas Semple was thirteen years old, the son of Mr and Mr Semple of Gate Cottage, Low Blantyre. He died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary […]