This weeks movie warps back to the 1970’s. Life in Blantyre is captured well in photos and videos and I loved making this! This one’s a cracker with many previously unseen photos, especially of Glasgow Road. We even pop inside the shops! It wasn’t a good decade for Blantyre’s old churches burning down. Demolition of […]
Have I got a treat in store for YOU! In May this year, Sanny McVicar passed me some old cine reels which he assured me were of Blantyre. Curious, I decided to use the income from the sales of Blantyre Project books to fund the expensive process of converting them to electronic format, suitable […]
Although there is evidence of “magic lantern” shows being held in Blantyre at Dixon’s Halls at Stonefield prior to 1900, Blantyre is known to have had seven proper cinemas, with only one still functional or present. Here are some little snippets taken from my forthcoming book. Full details on each cinema is available upon […]