It’s always nice to hear of local couples having long lasting , happy marriages and celebrating 50 years of marriage is certainly something noteworthy. On Tuesday 1st January 1901, that New Years night, family and friends of Mr George McLaughlin and his wife celebrated their Golden Wedding, as well as the New Year. The couple […]
Thanks to Betty McLean in Canada for kindly providing this story, extracted from the Hamilton Advertiser in 1922. It tells of a (then) well known Blantyre couple celebrating 50 years of marriage. Betty has shown me so much kindness by providing Blantyre related material in recent months, much of it being sentimental and I […]
This photo was shared by Jim Cochrane who commented, “Forrest Family of Blantyre. There is no date on this picture but they were my Granny Marshall’s Cousins and Uncles and Aunts. The occasion looks like a Birthday and I can see Nimmos band are providing the music.” George Park, a reader of Blantyre Project added […]
In December 1935, Mr & Mrs John Hendry of 82 Morris Crescent, Blantyre enjoyed their Golden Wedding Anniversary. (pictured) Mr. Hendry with his father had acted as a rescuer in the terrible disaster on 22nd October 1877 when 222 men and boys lost their lives in the explosion which occurred in Blantyre Collieries belonging to […]