Here’s a local anecdote from 1898, which appeared in the Blantyre newspapers in May that year. In an old school room, the school bell hung down from a rope from the ceiling. One morning, before lessons and during prayers a boy was seated near the rope and noticed a small mouse climbing down it. The […]
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To Absent Relatives
Nessie ma ain Skuil
“I Remember the Blantir”
Rosendale (When we were young) by Brian Cummiskey
David McIntosh recently handed in this poem to me. David was born in Rosendale at number 3 in 1942, so he could resonate with the contents of this poem. The poem is about Rosendale written in 2004 by former Blantyre resident, Brian Cummiskey. It was Brian’s first poem and this version below has auld Scots […]