Considerable discussion took place on Wednesday 24th October 1936, at the Fifth Lanark District Council (Blantyre and East Kilbride), whether or not the council should take over the children’s playground with its amusements, offered by the Blantyre Miners’ Welfare Committee (at the ground in Victoria Street, opposite the medical centre). It was proposed the play […]
A terrible fire in Blantyre’s Calder Street on 28th December 1937, left eight families shattered and homeless. This was to be a Christmas they would never forget. The fire raged through ten former houses known as Leggat’s building directly opposite the Blantyre Miner’s Welfare Institute. (in what is now the site of the bottle banks […]
Blantyre Projects BOTH books are now available to buy in Blantyre offline, as well as online! From today, the new book and previous one are available both priced £12.00 each from Blantyre Miners Welfare Community Resource Centre, Calder Street, Blantyre. Look out for our display and new colourful banners decorating the foyer. Books are available […]
The following extract is from author Stuart Christie’s book “My Granny made me an Anarchist” and recalls his time in 1960 or so coming to Blantyre.The words are unedited, sent over by Stuart and printed here with his permission. His brilliant book can be bought here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Granny-Made-Anarchist-Stuart-Christie/dp/0743263561/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413229926&sr=8-1&keywords=my+granny+made+me+an+anarchist 1959 – “Granny was forced to retire and […]
In September 2014, I was contacted by June Roberts saying , “Hi Paul, I am researching family history and have come across a photo of a John McCue (an old relative) being presented with a silver mounted umbrella by Mr Douglas the USA ambassador on the occasion of a plaque being unveiled at the miners […]
This picture was sent in by Brenda Murphy, one of the many ex-pats who recently have been following Blantyre Project. Brenda lives in Australia and wrote to me, “My Mum and Dad are the lovely young couple in the middle I think it may have been at the Blantyre Welfare Club We left I left […]
Thank you to Mary Falco who sent in this photo of the first Women’s Committee to be established at Blantyre Miner’s Welfare at Calder Street, Blantyre. Her gran Mary Muir, is the last person on the right. The Welfare Institute was established in Blantyre just a few years before in 1928 with the social club […]