It is a very rare occasion on Blantyre Project, where I have an unlabelled, unknown and undated photo and able to tie it up to a description of the event and finally put an exact date on it! This happened recently, where I was able to match this photograph to a reporter’s description of an […]
It’s been one of those truly bizarre weeks in Blantyre! Don’t know where to start with this. Whether it was the piper out in the Village, the escaped cows running ‘amock’ down Bardykes Road or ‘Deadpool’ superhero photographed going about his superhero business on Stonefield Road! It happened, so it now Blantyre history, but for […]
Pictured here is Ronald MacFarlane Snr. Narrative is shared by Stuart MacFarlane, and I’m informed that Ronald was born in 1908. (though not noted in Blantyre birth records) The photo dates from 1926 or 1927 when he was between 18 or 19 years of age. He was in the Territorial Army band of the Cameronian […]