With research resuming again, I’m still intent on pushing ahead with telling the short stories of some Blantyre prominent figures. Those who shaped our past. This may not be particularly interesting to everybody, but their stories and lives deserve to be retold and recorded. On Thursday 27th March 1902, the death took place of well […]
I was very honoured to receive a nice gift in the post in December 2021 from Blantyre Project reader, George Park. Wrapped very careful in cotton wool, was this small, delicate miner’s lamp. George had already corresponded with me, so I knew it was coming by post and thanks to our conversations knew the story […]
A real treat for you today with a cine film from 1961 of Stonefield Public Park. In colour no less! This delightful video shared here by Marion Roberston features her as a wee girl. Just look at the beautiful well tended colourful gardens. Edged grass, trimmed and clean paths. Flower beds bursting with colour in […]
We’re lucky to have a few good photos of the completed brick built Sports Centre and landscaped Public Park in the days before Google Earth and Satellite imagery. These photos from 1985 show the new building to good effect alongside Stonefield Public Park. It’s a good reminder to show how fast nature can take hold. […]
13th July 1982. The Clydeview Shopping Centre hadn’t yet been opened even 2 years but some of the units were still boarded up. I can see Lightbodys Bakers next to Glen Travel. Also Motorist Discount Centre (MDC) on the corner. The centre looks very familiar, clean but the hard landscaping pretty “bog standard”. This was […]
This previously unseen photo was taken with exceptional clarity in 1947. As WW2 ended, the Priory Bing had partially collapsed into the River Clyde, blocking part of the river. That happened just out the photo to the left. Above and out the photo was Bothwell Castle. Looking round to the right we see the […]
A modern myth seems to have manifested in recent years. It is said that you cannot cross the Blantyre Parish Boundary without stepping over water, based on the fact that the Parish Boundaries are the River Clyde to the North, The River Calder to the West, The RottenBurn to the south and the Park […]