To be published on 4th February 2019 Marion Dixon, who lives abroad shared this wonderful photo, adding, “This is a picture of my father Alexander Boyd Dixon – he’s the baby. He was born at 55 Main St Blantyre on May 19th 1909. The family emigrated in New Zealand when he was 4 years old.” […]
Great photo of John McSorley and Jim Donnelly rocking away at Matt’s Bar in High Blantyre Main Street in 2011. Jim told me, “This was a freezing cold Winters night with no heating on in the pub.” Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors […]
At the Hamilton J.P. Court, on Monday 28th January 1929, a charge was made against Hugh McKenna, a publician residing at Uddingston for having sold exciseable liquor after 9 p.m. from his public bar in Blantyre. Hugh was the landlord and owner of the Auchinraith Vaults at High Blantyre, which in more modern times […]
I like to think of High Blantyre as being a quiet part of town, but that was far from the case in May 1932, when 4 men appeared in court charged with assault of each other in a High Blantyre pub! The four men were: Peter Rooney, junior of 11 Victoria Street, Blantyre; Anthony Barrett, […]
An aerial photo of Blantyre in 1955 best shows High Blantyre Main Street at Auchinraith. I was contacted by a Blantyre Project ready who used to live in a former tenement on Main Street at the top of Auchinraith Road. The former tenement building is no longer there today. I’ve marked up several interesting […]