This picture was sent in by Brenda Murphy, one of the many ex-pats who recently have been following Blantyre Project. Brenda lives in Australia and wrote to me, “My Mum and Dad are the lovely young couple in the middle I think it may have been at the Blantyre Welfare Club We left I left […]
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Braidwood Building Contractors
Pictured here in 1968 in the back yard of Alexander Braidwood’s Building Yard, on the right in my mother Janet Duncan. I’m unsure who the person on the left is, but a Summers day was certainly being enjoyed by taking work outside. Braidwood Builders was located at 5 Logan Street, Low Blantyre where my mother […]
Fatal Accident Tram Collides with Lorry
On Tuesday 4th June 1946, a young Blantyre man lost his life in an accident in Glasgow with his two Blantyre colleagues seriously injured. A man was killed and ten people were injured in a collision between a Glasgow tramcar and a motor lorry loaded with brickettes. The accident occurred on the road near Barshaw […]