The High Blantyre Parish Church Halls, opened in the 1890s, included a community reading library. Community dissatisfaction arose over entry fees for the reading rooms. A suggestion was made in 1893 to separate fees for library and reading room access. Eventually, Blantyre established a public library with free book access.
Pictured here in the 1880’s is High Blantyre. To be more precise at Main Street looking towards Kirkton. This rare photo may look like a couple of others i’ve posted here, but I assure you it is a different one. You can see how young the trees are within the kirkyard by comparison to today. […]
<<< Back to Schools Having recently been passed the Auchentibber School Admissions Register from Blantyre man Alan Reardon, I have now obtained A3 scanned copies of the entire register. (Thanks Alex). The document tracks all 459 pupils admitted to the school between 1916 and right up until the last pupil left in 1959. I realise […]
On 3rd September 1979 Stonefield Parish Church, Glasgow Road suffered the fate of several other church buildings and was accidentally set on fire. The roof was being restored at the time when a workman left his blowtorch on while he went for his lunch. The building was just 9 months away from its centenary! At […]
This old engraving plate was loaned to the Blantyre Project recently by Michael Dorran. With his permission it has been copied and put into this Archive. Pictured is the old High Blantyre Church, that is the predecessor of the current High Blantyre Parish Church. The date is 1793 when the Church was built and it […]
Blantyre Old Parish Church has recently received a new minister. Sarah was welcomed to the Parish in recent weeks. This reminded me of an old Church newsletter that i still had. Passed to me from my mother, (as i was only 5 at the time), the newsletter features a picture of the Church in 1976, […]
I uncovered this old photograph taken 106 years ago in 1907 and something immediately puzzled me. The photo is clearly High Blantyre Old Parish Church but there’s a metal cross at the top of the steeple, which in today’s scene is not there anymore. Working in construction i know that engineers determined by WW2 such […]