Today is remembrance Sunday. Blantyre remembers its war victims with 2 outdoor services on later today at 3.00pm at High Blantyre Cenotaph and at Auchentibber War Memorial. As always, on behalf of the whole community of Blantyre and of course those abroad who want to pay their respects, I’ve arranged for two beautiful wreaths. These […]
Today is remembrance Sunday and organisations, individuals and businesses will be gathering at two locations in Blantyre later to pay their respects to the war dead. We popped up to Auchentibber at High Blantyre in advance to place this beautiful living wreath at the War Memorial on Parkneuk Road on behalf of all readers of […]
The cessation of hostilities on the Western Front during WW1 took effect at 11:00am — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the […]
Being too young in 1914, my Scottish grandfather missed fighting in the WW1 conflict and being too old in 1939, missed most of the fiercest fighting, though he did do active service. This remembrance day, as I’m reminded of war, I think about the other Czech side of my family too. For they were as […]
Its safe to say Remembrance Day in 2020 is a little different. With restrictions on not being able to meet in groups of more than 6 people, the town’s residents and organisations have had to offer their individual, separate support in their own time. But what a response! The cemetery area around the War Memorial […]
On behalf of the following of this page, I went up to Auchentibber Memorial today and quietly placed a Blantyre Project ‘living poppy wreath’. It sits alongside the Auchentibber & Calderside Resident’s wreath. The Memorial is looking majestic after being renovated last year. The newly planted weeping willow, flourishing. Behind it, the outline of the […]
Priestfield Hall, High Blantyre People are invited back to Priestfield Hall, High Blantyre at 3.30pm today, Sunday 11th November 2018 to hear Gordon Cook’s presentation about Auchentibber history. The event marking 100 years since the end of WW1 is being celebrated in true style, with the Community Council doing a fantastic job in decorating the […]