On 21st September 2015, James Meechan handed in a Blantyre Gazette edition fro 1955, directly to my home. I copied it, and within 24 hours had it returned to him, at his home in Newton. Old Blantyre newspapers tend to be a goldmine of information for Blantyre Project, so it was with sincere thanks, that […]
Residents in Blantyre were treated at the Broadway Cinema in October 1957, of a re-enactment film of the Dixon’s Explosion. To celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the tragedy, the Broadway screened the film and the newspaper reports suggested in advance just how popular it was going to be. The extract from the Blantyre Gazette tells, […]