Lisa Stebbing has provided this sad story of a woman who lost 6 grandsons in the Blantyre Pit Disaster of 1877. Lisa kindly put together a story which certainly supplements the mining stories on the Blantyre Project website. If your surname is Gemmel, Muir or Reid, this may be particularly interesting. Elizabeth Reid lost six […]
This family tree kindly shared by Lisa Stebbing of Melbourne, Australia, shows the impact clearly on families during the 1877 Blantyre Pit Disaster. Spare a thought for elderly Elizabeth Reid nee Walker who lost SIX grandsons in the blast! William, James and Matthew Gemmell were brothers. They were cousins to William Muir, and William and […]
Continuing our look at the weddings of some Blantyre folks. Still with 1978. Miss Janis Dunn of 57 Ballantrae Road, High Blantyre married Mr James Eley, 126 Farm Road, Burnbank in Blantyre Old Parish Church in early 1978. Blantyre couple Miss Agnes Green of 223b Glasgow Road married Paul McManus of 57 Livingstone Crescent […]
A rather interesting story today of the African Spears that feature as an exhibit at the David Livingstone centre. However, bizarrely the interesting part, being what happened to them when they arrived back to Lanarkshire AFTER Livingstone’s trips to Africa. There is a case of African weapons of war in the centre on the […]
It’s always nice when people send in paintings of Blantyre. These two have pride of place on the wall of Isla Arendell, who told me, “One is by A.G Reid of the bridge in the Calder (Milheugh) and the other of Stonefield by a Walter McDonald. I remember my mother Nan McNally buying the latter […]
Pictured here in 1930 is Warnock’s Laun (Land), a tenement building in Broompark Road. Today with receipt of these higher resolution images from Gordon Cook, some more information came to hand about what life was like living there. Mr Andrew Reid was born in this building in 1909. His account of his childhood days at […]
Amongst the newspaper articles passed down to me from my late mum, is this Blantyre page from The East Kilbride News. Its dated Friday Dec 15th, 1972. Pictured on the left is my dad in the Anderson Church Drama Group. This was the drama group based in Stonefield Road. I also recognise Archie Duncan, Ronnie […]