Throughout the mid 70s, Blantyre community came together to help raise funds for Amanda Moore, a brave little girl with disabilities from an early age. Various organisations rallied and together with individual donations, it was hoped to raise money to send Amanda to America to explore ways that she could have a more normal and […]
Owing to the great number of socks needed for soldiers at the front, local Blantyre women came up with a great idea in 1917, to help gather in as many socks as possible. Mrs Moore of Greenhall House and her friend Mrs Bannatyne of Milheugh House offered a prize each month to members of High […]
This story remembers Robert Moore, an 8 month old Blantyre boy who sadly died in a house fire in 1968. Whilst this article is a little “modern”, it is intended to remember Robert’s memory and hopefully will not cause undue upset to the family. I have a very strict rule here not to post about […]
My friend Alex Rochead was walking in the Calder at New Year and found a couple of these bricks marked “Moore”. Wondering if they were from Wardrop Moore’s Greenhall brickie, Alex shared the pictures here. I was wondering if any brick experts could advise? I think that Wardrop Moore’s Craigmuir brickie stamped their bricks with […]
Photographed here in the mid 1930’s are Blantyreferme Pits 1 and 2. Captured from the Clyde Bridges looking back to Blantyrefereme Bing, Fin Me Oot would be behind the horizon. Around the time of this picture, a few safety incidents occurred, a couple proving fatal. Five men were affected a serious, gassing accident in the Blantyre […]
I’ve often written about historical drownings in the Clyde, so what a surprise it was to see a drowning, this time in Auchentibber, which I would have thought would have been the last place for a Blantyre resident to meet their end. Considerable excitement prevailed in Blantyre on Thursday 17th April 1930, when it became known that a […]
Two photos of former Greenhall House, High Blantyre. One you may have seen, the other less likely. These were shared by Marion Turner whose grandfather, Thomas Denholm was the coach driver for the Moore family of Greenhall prior to 1910. As the family left for Australia, they obviously went with fond memories of Greenhall, for […]