With the imminent re-opening of the renovated Shuttle Row museum in Blantyre, we’re celebrating by showcasing in detail, the story of how the slum was changed into a museum the first time around during the late 1920’s. Transcribed from the 1940’s, this chapter explores how the ideas were built upon. “By the Spring of 1927, […]
Thanks are offered again to South Lanarkshire Council for cutting down the remaining tall conifers in High Blantyre Cemetery. The trees had in recent decades grown considerably and were obscuring the memorials and gravestones. They had partially been cut in October, so it was welcome news again when this week, the council cut down the […]
Priestfield Hall, High Blantyre People are invited back to Priestfield Hall, High Blantyre at 3.30pm today, Sunday 11th November 2018 to hear Gordon Cook’s presentation about Auchentibber history. The event marking 100 years since the end of WW1 is being celebrated in true style, with the Community Council doing a fantastic job in decorating the […]
Conifers Cut back The community owes a huge thank you to Clr Maureen Chalmers (SNP) for being instrumental in getting South Lanarkshire Council to clear back the tall conifers around the Dixon’s Memorial Obelisk, at High Blantyre Cemetery. Decades of growth had obscured the monument and despite concerns from residents over the years, nothing […]
Today I received a wonderful message from Australian, George Cochrane, whose father fought in the First World War and after being injured, was attended to at Caldergrove House, right on the boundary of Blantyre and Cambuslang. For those not aware of Caldergrove, it was a large detached villa in its own grounds by the Rotten Calder […]
Most of us know of the High Blantyre Disaster monument erected in 1977, on the centenary of the Pit Disaster of 1877. This picture shows that very day in October 1977. However, did you know, that actually the fundraising did so well in 1977 that there was money leftover even after the beautiful monument […]
Gordon Cook kindly recently shared this A3 poster with me, which he had typed up for the heritage group. The Blantyre Monument – After the destructive explosion of Monday 22nd October 1877, when the bodies of the miners who were killed had been recovered, and all burials had taken place, certain local people raised the […]