A shop was completely wrecked on Glasgow Road on Saturday 26th October 1912, after a football result didn’t go the way a fan thought. On that particular evening, a rather merry Hutchison McKinnon, a Blantyre miner entered the grocers shop on Glasgow Road and started a conversation with some boys about the days football results. […]
A lady named Karen asks, “Hi Paul, I am looking for help trying to find out details of my gran (Mary Hutchison, nee Barratt). I’ve been told she used to have or work in a small shop in High Blantyre that sold sweets, don’t know if it sold anything else though). It was before my […]
Kim Latimer contacted me in August 2015, saying, “I am trying to find out any information on my husband’s great grandparents Peter Latimer 1884-1946 and Jane Hutchison 1891-1972. The census states they lived in midfield cottages Auchentibber and most of the family was from Blantyre.” This is a family line, I have now investigated. Let’s […]
Springtime 1940 was remembered by the Miners of Bardykes Colliery as being one that should have been different. Appalling safety lapses resulted in the deaths of two men just weeks apart and instigated inquiries into the safety of the pit. As war raged on in Europe, many of the men employed in the mines were […]