This picture celebrates a happy occasion. The 54th Wedding anniversary of Neil and Christine Scott, who were back at Blantyre Old Parish Church, the place they were married at. Neil has kindly scanned many photos from his families’ collection from the 1930s through to 1960s, which will feature here over the next fortnight. It is […]
X factor contestant and runner up, Nicholas McDonald proved a hit with the young ladies yesterday when he turned up to open High Blantyre Old Parish Gala day. I was along in my Blantyre Project capacity to raise some funds for charity. It was touch and go for a time with the wind and rain […]
Next is a photo from the late 1950’s of Blantyre Old Parish Sunday School. Elizabeth Weaver, who shared this photo added, “here’s a photo taken at a Sunday School party (Blantyre Old). My brother should have been there but he must have avoided the photo I know some of the boys – Iain McAlpine, Henry […]
A brilliant photo by Andrew Reid of High Blantyre, shared here by Gordon Cook. Pictured in the late 1950’s is a Winter, snowy scene showing Main Street looking Westwards, at Kirkton. The tenement houses along Main Street have started to be demolished, not surviving a hundred years (built 1865). Gone is the pub and general […]
T’was the week before Christmas 1975. Location: Downstairs in the High Blantyre Church Halls, Main Street, High Blantyre (the site is now a modern Care home previously across from Carrigans). I’m the wee boy….but who’s the wee girl? She would be in her early 40’s now and of course …..WHO’S the Santa?!)
Who remembers these? When it was a child’s birthday (who was a member of the High Blantyre Parish Sunday School) in the 1970s, they got a little postcard birthday card. Here are some of mine now saved in my growing folder of Blantyre memories. There’s even a card for the year i was born in […]