A couple of weddings from 1967 next. Policewoman Vivian Kerr of Waverley Terrace married Airdrie Constable Robert Tweedie at High Blantyre Parish Church. The couple were stationed at Blantyre Police Station but later moved to Coatshill with daughters Kirstie and Una. Also in 1967 Etta Gray of Beech Place, Blantyre married Hamilton man Andrew Anderson. […]
From the illustrated social history book… “Blantyre – Glasgow Road, The Real Story” by Paul Veverka (c) 2016 – 2018. Broomknowe Cottage There’s a little one storey, detached cottage, which still exists to this day at 259 Glasgow Road. Sometime between 1876 and 1880, the Gray family who had already built their neighbouring tenement […]
A sad tale unfolded on Sunday 23rd March 1913 at the Village Mills, Blantyre. A tragic double drowning took the lives of two people, one of them only a boy. Some boys had been playing near the edge of the River Clyde which was flowing higher than normal due to Spring rainfall. To everyone’s horror, […]
A few people have asked me for some more stories connected to the historical people of Blantyre. This is a documented tale that was offered to Neil Gordon during 1979. It should be re-told here if only to preserve it’s content. Long before Aggie Bain owned the oldest house in Blantyre at Barnhill, the cottage […]