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 […]
“The women who have given evidence have shown commendable pluck in the face of threats,” said the fiscal, Mr D. W. Hiddleston, Hamilton J.P. Court when four High Blantyre men were up in the court for assault on 30th August 1935. In one of the cases, sentence of sixty days’ imprisonment was imposed. The accused were […]
With thanks to Gordon Cook for providing this article about the Masonic Halls of Glasgow Road. Back to the early 1900s, a great bazaar was held to raise funding (for the new hall), and along with donations and subscriptions, the Lodge hierarchy were soon able to engage architects to draw up plans for new chambers […]
The following article was emailed to me by Gordon Cook, who has taken time to research the Masonic Halls of Glasgow Road. It is spread over 2 articles, this one for the older hall at Forrest Street, and a Part 2 for the newer hall at Stonfield, Glasgow Road. Thanks to Gordon for sharing. Blantyre’s […]