Continuing a look at the remarkable collection of photos given to me recently. The photographer is Mr David Ritchie of High Blantyre who took many photos all over Blantyre between 1895 – 1920s. Many of them appear to have been turned into postcards. This is Auchentibber Gardens, at the edge of the Quoiting Green. Behind […]
Pauline Bell writes, “Hi, I hope you can help me. My father Ian Bell was born at 90 Victoria Street Blantyre in 1934. I have needed to know all off my life about his parents and upbringing and can’t get anywhere. Is there anything you can tell me that might help me out or point […]
Sunday 9th March 1958 certainly started with a bang in High Blantyre! When Royal Engineers carried out the demolition of High Blantyre’s Dixon’s Pit, a demolition that the National Coal Board thought would cost nothing, ended up being quite costly! The Territorials were demolishing the old washing plant at High Blantyre Pit that day, but the […]
Thank you to Duncan Slater for sending over these photos of Blantyre Scout’s Camp to Inverary in 1947. Duncan has kindly named the people he recognised, which is always a plus point in older photos. Are you related to or know anybody in these?
Margaret Lehman Nimmo has sent in this photo of her brother, Jim Nimmo. Margaret added, “This photo was taken 1960/61ish. It’s my brother who was Scout Master and a trophy won by the High Blantyre Scouts. Unfortunately he cannot remember exactly what the trophy was for, you may even know yourself with so much […]
There’s a good description of the Remembrance Day service in a local newspaper on 14th November 1942. How much more personal this service must have been to the people , actually experiencing the war and losing those men in those same years. “A very large turnout of the Blantyre Company of the Home Guard under […]
Seaplane – also known as a Screen Plane. From the 1960’s until the late 1980’s, some people may remember seeing the strangest thing in Auchentibber. A sea plane, sitting at the back of one of the old, derelict buildings (Brown’s Land) on the left hand side of Sydes Brae at the start of Parkneuk Road. […]