In 1980, this young Blantyre lad, David Robertson was only 18 years old but had already won himself a place in the elite of Britain’s Armed Forces, The Commandos. The former Blantyre High pupil had just completed a much harder regime of “schooling” at the Royal Marine Training Centre in Devon. He was instructed in […]
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1972 Cold War Russian Map
This is an interesting map. Pictured here in 1972 at the height of the Cold War, is a Russian Recon map (of Blantyre!). The names are in Russian, the main roads are enlarged to identify primary infrastructure and whilst it looks like all the buildings are marked, they are not all there, nor complete. In […]