On Saturday 25th April 1914, two Blantyre men, not particularly fond of one another decided to settle their difference in a Burnbank Pub. Differences that were to be settled with gunpowder! Shortly after six o’clock, when the bar in Burnbank was filled with customers, a loud explosion attracted the attention of everybody there to some […]
Continuing our look at many weddings of Blantyre people. Sticking with the year 1978 here is beautiful bride Mary MORRISON of 109 Broompark Road who married Mr William MARR of Wishaw in Blantyre Old Parish. The next stunning bride in 1978 is Miss Mary GREEN of 223b Glasgow Road. Mary married Mr Robert DORNAN of […]
Continuing our look at the weddings of some Blantyre folks. Still with 1978. Miss Janis Dunn of 57 Ballantrae Road, High Blantyre married Mr James Eley, 126 Farm Road, Burnbank in Blantyre Old Parish Church in early 1978. Blantyre couple Miss Agnes Green of 223b Glasgow Road married Paul McManus of 57 Livingstone Crescent […]
The annual general meeting of the High Blantyre Quoiting Club was held in Mr. Blackley’s Hall on Saturday 17th February 1900. The location would suggest that the public house and hall, which is still Blakely’s on the corner of Main Street and Broompark Road today, was handy for the quoiting green, which was then […]
I’ve recently been passed by Gordon Cook, my very own copy of a little Souvenir booklet from 1909 which featured Auchentibber Quoiting Green. The small pamphlet was written exclusively that year by the workers who formed the Quoiting Green. Its purpose was to let visitors know how the green and the famous Italian Gardens […]
Shared here by Drew Semple a while back, is Stonefield Boys Club around 1973 or 1974. There may be more than a few familiar faces in here, some not with us anymore. In this group as well as Drew are Peter Barrat, Stevie Young, Frank Green (from Winton Crescent) , Stevie Murray, Jim Lees, Wullie […]
Pictured here around 1900 is the Blantyre Curling Team. Alex McWilliam (great, grandfather of Arlene Green) is holding one of the Curling stones ready to take his shot. Many of the men in this team were from High Blantyre and Alex himself was known to farm at Greenhall around the time of this picture. The […]