James Kelly (1865-1932) was a prominent Scottish footballer, renowned as Celtic’s first captain and pivotal in establishing the club’s legacy. He played for Renton and Scotland, winning the Scottish Cup multiple times. Post-retirement, he became a Celtic director, with his family maintaining ties to the club.
Thanks to Natalie Roles who shared this photo of her great grandfather in Blantyre. Likely taken in the late 1920s, early 1930s, her relative William Kelly is at the bottom left. This may be some sort of workers outing, and I believe was taken at the railway station. He died in 1943. Natalie is hoping […]
In March 1897, Blantyre’s James Kelly, the doyen of Scottish Professional Football players was elected a member of Blantyre School Board. This was to be a slightly different pace for James and his appointment to the position occurred after a public vote at High Blantyre School. He came second in that poll. He was at […]
I’ve launched a brand new feature this weekend at Blantyre Project called, “Re-Animation”! Incredibly, I’m able to take a good quality, forward facing old image of a person and make a 13 second video of their face! See how they once looked at a time before film, or when no film existed! Like this short […]
When Aidan Kelly recently emailed me about his relative James Kelly of Blantyre who used to own a pub, I immediately thought of James Kelly of Thornhill, Blantyre, the Celtic co-founder and Director and who owned Kelly’s Pub at the corner of Auchinraith Road. I’ve written plenty about that particular man and have photos of […]
From the book, “Blantyre Glasgow Road South – The Real Story” by Paul Veverka (c) 2017 Henderson’s Buildings On the site of former Springwell Farm, throughout the late 19th Century and much of the 20th Century were tenement buildings known firstly as Henderson’s Buildings and latterly post WW2 as Kelly’s Buildings. In 1878, […]
Not wanting to dwell on the subject or football too much, I did however want to tell this little story. Its a story of people of different religions helping out those not of their own faith. It branches across and unites people and its for that reason, i’d like to share this. During the great […]