These are the two Primary 1 classes from 1980, taken at St Joseph’s Primary School. Do you recognise anybody? Perhaps yourself or friends? These kids would all be in their early to mid 40’s now. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said: Karen Menzies That’s […]
David McAleenan shared this school photo adding, “My grandfather is 4 rows back 4 in from the left – Patrick McAleenan. We reckon this could be around 1930” Likely St Joseph’s School Chapel on Glasgow Road.
St Blanes Primary School, I think in 1979. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said, Paul McGivern Yeh me lol Connie Glass Adrienne Spencer do you recognise anyone? Xx Adrienne Spencer Class above me lol 😂 xx Connie Glass I thought it […]
A school photo now, this time from 1981 or 1982. The School is definitely High Blantyre Primary and my cousin Lorraine Duncan is pictured in the back row (perhaps the reason my mother kept this photo). Do you know anybody else and who the teacher is? Note: Once posted on social media, I will update […]
Blantyre Project reader Susan Dunsmuir sent this photo over to me. She wrote, “the little boy seated first row far right with the mismatched button is my grandfather David Dunsmuir. The story goes that the long face he has is because the photo was postponed a day and his mum wouldn’t let him wear his […]
In 1975 schools in High Blantyre were in crisis. The new Primary School had been opened in Broompark Road, but was not large enough for the number of children that lived within the capture area. This may have been due to new housing estates constructed around the same time of the Primary School. The old […]
<<< Back to Schools Auchinraith Primary School opened at 3pm on the afternoon of Friday 31st August 1900. (Not 13th August as the late Neil Gordon had stated.) The Glasgow Herald reported the event stating that on the invitation of the Blantyre School Board, a party of some 70 guests, representative of all the local […]