It was prize time for some Blantyre youngsters at the end of July 1977 at the Blantyre Miners’ Welfare Club. The winners of the youth sports section were present at a special awards evening organised by the club on the last Friday of that month in Victoria Street, Blantyre. Over 140 guests watched the winners […]
Thomas Peter, (the younger) of Crossbasket and Cardarroch, was born on or before 22 April 1723, the date upon which his baptism was registered at Cadder in Lanarkshire, Scotland. His mother is not mentioned in his baptismal record but James Dunlop of Garnkirk was the principal witnesses present (godfather, or sponsor), and this suggests that […]