Karen McQuade sent me this great photo adding, “My great grandparents James Malone and his wife Agnes ( nee O’Connor). Don’t know the year Paul. What do you think? They had 13 children my Gran McQuade was number 10. I know that He was Irish His mother died and he was sent over as a […]
To the immediate west and joined to the Co-op Emporium were 2 separate Co-op buildings. A 3 storey tall tenement and a 2 storey tenement further west, the original Co-op older building. Lets look at each in order of their addresses, starting at 235-239 Glasgow Road, the 3 storey tenement. These buildings […]
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, […]