How about this for a brilliant photo! Pictured in 1975 by Drew Semple is High Blantyre Primary School. Drew had the foresight to take several photos around Blantyre and kindly dropped them into my home just after the covid lockdown eased. Scanned in good resolution for sharing with Blantyre Project, a few of them will […]
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1988 – 1994 High Blantyre Primary
1960’s Schoolboy Photos
1980 High Blantyre Primary 1
The three classes of High Blantyre Primary School, Primary 1. This was taken in 1980, these kids now likely in their early to mid 40s. Recognise anybody? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said: Lizzi Mac Me!!! Bottom foto 5th from the left…dodgy boots! Xxx […]
1975 High Blantyre Primary
John Watt shared this photo of Primary 7, taken at High Blantyre Primary in 1975. . I’m told that the teacher was Mrs Lithgow. These kids would likely be around 55 years old now. Recognise anybody? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said: Hazel Aitken […]
High Blantyre Primary “Sing in”
The infant pupils of High Blantyre Primary School certainly knew how to put a song in the hearts of one of Lanarkshire’s major charities in 1980. In August that year, over 200 pupils held a “sing in” singing songs for raising money towards the Strathclyde Scanner Campaign. The youngsters ploughed through a whole morning of […]
1988 High Blantyre Primary
1980s Blantyre Aerial
This photo was shared recently by Jack Bethel. It’s an aerial photo of Blantyre taken in the early 1980s. A time before the Technology Park and before housing beside the church. The road snaking through the picture is Hunthill Road, with the old High Blantyre Primary School seen at the bottom left, one of 2 […]
High Blantyre Primary, 1980
I can remember this like it was yesterday! In June 1980, children at High Blantyre Primary School’s ‘Music and Drama’ Group put on a spectacular show! Their annual stage production was called, “A Touch of Class” and had 118 pupils in the cast! They performed to over 1300 people over that week, the audience comprised […]