The first annual show of honey was held by the Blantyre Bee-Keepers Association on Saturday 19th October 1895. The venue was the Masonic Hall, High Blantyre an appropriate location given there were several beekeepers nearby. The entries, considering the season were very satisfactory for a first show and amongst the Blantyre entires were some from […]
A story now from 128 years ago tonight. On Thursday 26th December, Boxing Day, 1895 High Blantyre’s Parish Church held their sabbath school soiree. (To you and I, that’s their Sunday School Party!) The event took place that evening in the upstairs Masonic Hall on Main Street and in conjunction with the Band of Hope […]
Here’s some stories which were making the news in Blantyre in April 1896, some 127 years ago. The Stonefield and Blantyre Young Catholic Men’s Society had a new meeting place at the Masonic Hall at the corner of Forrest Street and Glasgow Road. That April it was hoped this first annual meeting and dance would […]
Week commencing Monday 15th April 1907 saw a rather unique exhibition taking place every afternoon and evening that week in the former Stonefield Masonic Hall on Glasgow Road, Blantyre. Hosted by the Blantyre Gas Company, the promotional event displayed a range of stoves and cookery appliances, many of which were powered with gas. The cookers […]
Masonic Hall / Elm Court Flats When the Masonic Buildings further west along Glasgow Road were demolished in the late 1970’s, the lodge built a new brick building at the bottom of Elm Street, where Sprott’s / Kidd’s Building had been. Their time as the 599 Club there was short lived before moving out […]
On Thursday 8th February 1900 the members of the United Enginekeepers’ Association held their annual supper and dance in the Masonic Hall, Main Street, High Blantyre. According to Google, the Association was a collective group of engineering or mechanically minded enthusiasts which set out their own investment programme though the expanded parent company throughout […]
Mr James B Struthers was a well known spirit dealer at Stonefield and High Blantyre in the 1880s. He was an accountant from Wishaw still living there as late as 1875. On 23rd April 1872 he married Mary Ann Harrison at Cambusnethan and had son, also James in 1875. The couple went on to have other children, mostly […]