More ancestry requests. This may not be tremendously interesting for many people, but in the interests of openly replying and attempting to answer every single query I get, I hope this answers the enquiry. Ian Sanders contacted me saying, “I’m trying to find the birth date of Robert Thomson. His father was John Fraser Thomson born […]
Who can remember Robert Thomson’s Licensed Grocers Shop on Hunthill Road. Located in a former tenement called “Calderview”, the popular shop in High Blantyre was well known. What can you tell me about the shop or indeed Robert? Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said: […]
Three more Blantyre weddings for you, this time from 1967. First is Morag Russell and Robert Crothers. Morag lives at 11 Fir Grove, Viewpark, but it was Robert who was a Blantyre man. When he married, he was living at 1 Priory Street, Blantyre. Staying with 1967, Miss Moira Lee of 164 Victoria Street married […]
Pictured here in the 1950’s is Young & Sons (coalmerchants of Blantyre), delivering to a building called Calderview on Hunthill Road. Calderview was a former building, which once stood on Hunthill Road at the corner of Stonefield Crescent. It had the address of 55, 56, 58, 60 and 62 Hunthill Road. There are no […]