These men had a real difficult job in front of them in October 1977 when they gathered in the High Blantyre Old Parish Church Hall to judge the efforts of the town’s young artists. For this was the climax of the competition, open to Blantyre schools, organised as part of the commemoration of the centenary […]
Bill Hunter writes, “This is a photo of my Grand Uncle James Halliday Hunter and his wife Elizabeth Wotherspoon who stayed at 49 Hunthill Road, High Blantyre. There is a story that they had a tea room in Blantyre, but we don’t know if that’s accurate.” In the 1940’s, 49 Hunthill Road was owned by […]
Moving on to some weddings from 1980. (Was that really 39 years ago?!) Do you recognise any of the couples. We hope they have had long and happy marriages. All into the archives on Blantyre Project. As always, if any person featured in these photos wishes them to be removed from the archive, please just […]
This wonderful picture is shared by Jack Owens of his ancestors, the Hunter family. It was taken around 1900 at 263 Glasgow Road at what is believed to be ‘Dervock Cottage’, a former cottage once located near the old Bank building. Lots of nice detail in here. Clearly a musical man, one has to […]
Thank you to Australian lady, Marg Broadley for sending me these photos back in June. Apologies, only getting round to uploading them now. Pictured is a wedding in Blantyre in 1917. The wedding is that of Marg’s great aunt Helen Smail Sommerville, who married Thomas Campbell Hunter. The wedding party are pictures on the grass […]
On 21st June 2015, I was contacted by Australian lady Marg Boardley (nee Sommerville) who emailed, “I’m visiting from Australia and came across your Blantyre page. My great aunt, Helen Smail Sommerville gave her address on her marriage cert in 1917 as Blantyre Lodge, Blantyre. Do you have any record of her working there? She […]
A drowning tragedy occurred in the afternoon of Tuesday 26th May 1937 in the “lade”at the River Clyde near the wood-flour mill at Low Blantyre. The mill belonged to Messrs Gideon Walker & Sons. The turbine engine at the mills had been stopped to allow repairs to be made, and the sluice gates of the lade […]