Today’s picture is Matts Bar. Shared here by Stephen Kelly who told me, “I’m thinking it’s the 70s judging by the haircuts. I know some of the faces. Middle row second from the left is my Great Grandfather George “Geordie” Gillian. Front row second from the right is John MacKenna. Right at the back in […]
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 […]