A fellow history colleague of mine, Mr Peter Jump is a keen user of a metal detector. As a hobby, with permission he often scours fields, parks and verges to see if anything interesting turns up. Just recently there, he uncovered a small ball shaped object near Greenhall, believing it to be a musket ball. […]
High up on the fields above Udston (now where the Westcraigs housing estate is) Private Weir of the Mechanical Transport section of the 4th Lanarkshire Battalion training on a motorcycle in 1942. Mr Weir is on the bike and his trainer looks on. Taken during the middle of WW2, the home guard played an important […]
There’s a good description of the Remembrance Day service in a local newspaper on 14th November 1942. How much more personal this service must have been to the people , actually experiencing the war and losing those men in those same years. “A very large turnout of the Blantyre Company of the Home Guard under […]