To New Year 1929 into 1930 next. This photo is of Blantyre Junior Imperialists – some very decorated New Year revellers who took part in a Fancy Dress Carnival held in the Masonic Hall, High Blantyre. This was a celebration of not just the end of the “roaring twenties”, but knowing that the global great […]
A fantastic photo of Main Street, High Blantyre, taken around the first decade of the 1900’s. In the foreground, the tenement that still stands was JB Struthers Inn and the Masonic Lodge (long before the roughcast covered the stone). The Priestfield tree is MOST prominent in this photo, even in 1900, estimated as being […]
Researched by Paul Veverka. Words from the book, “Blantyre Glasgow Road South – The Real Story” (c) 2017 **Update: Since writing this, I have revisited and now have a huge amount of expanded detail about John Ness, available in the Feb 2020 book, “Blantyre People” by Paul Veverka (c) 2020 During the late 19th Century […]
In December 2016, Graham Glen contacted me saying, “I am researching the work of my maternal grandfather, Glasgow master glass stainer James Benson, who was prolific in producing church memorial windows and domestic panels around 1890 until 1914. He is on record as having work installed at the Livingstone Masonic Lodge. I would be most grateful […]