Margaret Nimmo Lehmann emailed me recently with a nice bit of Blantyre social history. Margaret told me, “I met up with Elizabeth Bennoch (now Lovatt) a couple of weeks ago, she lives about 2 hours from me. She was a year younger than me, but we were friends through Brownies etc. at H.B. Parish and […]
Jim Cochrane shared this photo from 1932, adding, “This is my mum’s Cousins, Jim and Jean Marshall. Their father was James Marshall (my Grandfathers Older brother) . Jean’s married name later was Willis”
Very often, people following this website are very generous and hand in something old for me to look at, or even add to my growing collection of Blantyre documents. An old newspaper was recently one of those items, given to me by Blantyre man Jim Brown. It’s an issue of “The Evening Time” dated 15th […]
During the early 1920’s the population of Blantyre dropped slightly, the first time ever in it’s history. This was due to lack of work, saturation of coal mining jobs and the decline of the mills. As with many people in Scotland at the time, suddenly the idea of exploring America seemed a wonderful prospect. Tales […]