A fire broke out about 5.30am on the morning of Friday 3rd May 1929 in a two-storey double-block dwelling situated at 104 Morris Crescent, Blantyre, in the centre of the relatively new large housing scheme. The house was occupied by Mr William Hardie, a commercial traveller who was employed by a Glasgow firm. He lived at number […]
A serious accident which occurred during a dense fog towards the end of February 1930, at Rutherglen Railway Station, when a large number of passengers were seriously injured, was recalled by many upon the later death on 4th May 1933 of Mr. Donald Macintosh the signalman, who resided at 75 Morris Crescent, Blantyre, after a prolonged […]
A few pictures sent in by Alan Barclay. Summer 1959 Harry Barclay at the back of Morris Crescent, facing on to the old park where later became Blantyre High School. Pictured in his Celtic top. Harry sadly passed away on 5th April 2013 and was the much loved father of Alan Barclay who sent this […]
I recently received an email where Blantyre Project reader Muir Wasson, kindly scanned and provided some old photos of Blantyre. Muir wrote, “I was brought up in Blantyre from by birth in 1935 until I left in 1957 and have many memories of that time. We lived first in Morris crescent and then in Monteith […]