A real treat for you today with a cine film from 1961 of Stonefield Public Park. In colour no less! This delightful video shared here by Marion Roberston features her as a wee girl. Just look at the beautiful well tended colourful gardens. Edged grass, trimmed and clean paths. Flower beds bursting with colour in […]
From the 1910’s, whilst this photo is marked Blantyre Vics, I’m not sure it is, for I don’t remember reading about Vics playing in hoops ever. It could possibly be Blantyre Celtic or most likely another local team. Mr Daniel Sprott is pictured second from the left, second row wearing a strip next to the […]
Despite the quality of this photo, it’s a cracker and very much Blantyre related. This previously unseen photo online is of Blantyre Victoria Football Club (Blantyre Vics). The year is unknown but thought to be in the 1910’s. Daniel Sprott, is seated in the second row, second from the right. A relative Penny Roberston, […]
Margaret Wilson shared this photo proudly adding, “This is a couple of High Blantyre lads. My dad John Morton is on the left and standing beside him is Peter Robertson.” Do you know these men? Perhaps Margaret could add a little more detail?
Next, we have a few weddings from 1967. First up is Miss Ann Wallace of Glasgow Road, Blantyre who married Mr Alistair Walker of Home Farm, Douglas. The couple were married at Anderson Church on Stonefield Road. Alistair was a constable with Lanarkshire County Police stationed at Cambuslang but was in the process of moving to […]
Moving on to some weddings from 1980. (Was that really 39 years ago?!) Do you recognise any of the couples. We hope they have had long and happy marriages. All into the archives on Blantyre Project. As always, if any person featured in these photos wishes them to be removed from the archive, please just […]
Some weddings of Blantyre folk who were married in 1980. First up is James Craig from 62 Station Road who married Hamilton lady Modena Spears. The couple married in David Livingstone Church on Glasgow Road. Jean Kyle of Auchentibber Court, High Blantyre married George Lawson, from Douglas. The couple married in 1980 in Burnbank. and […]