This handsome chap is Wullie Pate. Photographed in the 1940’s, Wullie was then on WW2 Service duty as an RAF Policeman. William Burns Pate was born on 14th November 1908 at 43 Auchinraith Road. The son of John Pate a joiner and Jane Carruthers. (m 1899 Hamilton). On that very day in 1908, Scientist Albert […]
Miss Jean S McLean of LochRyan Cottage, 276 Main Street, High Blantyre signs the register after her wedding at Blantyre Old Parish Church to Mr. Alexander McClean, who lived nearby at 13 Park Crescent. Jean was a teacher at West Coats School in Cambuslang and her family owned the newsagents at High Blantyre. Whats […]
Another wonderful photo of High Blantyre Main Street, from the 1920’s. On the right, in the Co-operative building (now Costcutters), a child carries the shopping basket of a mother or grandmother. A boy look on at the camera and the Co-operative delivery horse and cart looks fully loaded, ready to set off from the […]
At 2.15pm on Sunday 22nd January 2017, a silver astra vehicle crashed through the plate glass window of the Newsagents (Mauchline’s) Shop on Glasgow Road, near the top of Station Road. Thankfully, the young man driving the car was uninjured and had recently passed his test. The shop staff were also uninjured but the incident […]
I’ve very kindly been given access to some information regarding the Scott and McLean families who have been established in Blantyre for five generations as the town’s oldest running Stationers & Newsagents. Blantyre Project reader, Betty McLean lives in Canada and sent over some information connected to this family. I’ve added to it below, expanding […]