A brilliant set of pictures next, hopefully the first time you’ve seen these an evoking lots of memories of Blantyre Market. These are from 1979 and in particular this is a brief period where the markets had no license, and therefore were unauthorised! The Hastie’s Farm 1970’s market was run by an English based company […]
We’re halfway through our remarkable look at working life in a market garden in 1874 and the amazingly detailed diary of Archie Brown from 1874 and 1875. I hope you’re enjoying the wonderful photos and extracts in these articles. Pictured in 1908 is Boathouse Greenhouses and Orchard at the market garden business. Continuing our […]
Markets – When Blantyre was made a Burgh in 1599, the weekly market was fixed to take place on a Thursday and an annual fair was to be granted on 14th October “for buying and selling of flesh, fish, oxen, sheep, meal, peas, corn, barley, linen and woollen cloth skins and all other goods, […]