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 […]
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Bell – Nimmo Ancestry
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 […]
1958 Explosion rocks High Blantyre
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 […]
1947 Scout Camp Inverary
1960 Jim Nimmo
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 […]
Remembrance Day Blantyre 1942
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 […]
The Auchentibber Sea Plane
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. […]