This little girl is pictured outside Shuttle Row, at Blantyre Works. The photo dates to around 1900, meaning its now around 116 years old! A sweet photo as the girl poses for the camera or perhaps looks on in sheer curiosity. In the background is the office building at Shuttle Row (David Livingstone’s birth-house is […]
Nan Lyndon, aged fifteen, who lived with her father, a widower, at St. James’ Place, Auchenraith Road, Blantyre, was drowned in the River Clyde at Blantyre on the afternoon of Monday 22nd January 1934. The newspaper reports of the time told “The body of the girl lay wedged in between boulders in the centre of […]
Friday 31st January 1936 was a sad day for Blantyre. A four-year-old girl was killed that evening in a road accident on the Glasgow Road, Blantyre. She was little Reta Black, who resided with her grandparents Mr and Mrs John Black at 7 Forrest Street, Blantyre. The girl ran into the street near her home and was instantly killed […]
Margaret Chalmers recently sent in a few family photos of her Blantyre family, The Patersons who lived in Ulva Place. Pictured in the family photo here in the 1930’s are the family of Patersons. Margaret told me, “Ulva Place was near David Livingstone Memorial Centre. My mother is at the bottom right, Isobel Paterson the […]
Pictured in the background of this 1950’s photograph is Craighead Railway Viaduct. This structure carried trains from Hamilton over to Bothwell across the River Clyde on the L.N.E Railway, all at an impressive height of 180 feet! It would surely have been an impressive journey or sight from a rail carriage window. The old walkway at […]