Blantyre Speedway Supporters Club launched a sweet fundraiser in August 1980 asking for Blantyre families to bring back branded rock from wherever they were on summer holidays. The plan was to hand it all over to the children of Wooddean Home on Farm Road. At the time Blantyre Speedway was home to the Glasgow Tigers […]
On Friday 26th August 1836, two males who were employed at Blantyre to cart some stones and rubbish ended up in a quarrel. The row was over some trifling matter relating to the performance of the work, which resulted in one of them, named Cameron picking up a heavy stone and with it, struck […]
In early February 2015, Blantyre man Jim Brown made an interesting discovery,whilst out taking pictures at Milheugh, near the River Calder. Posting it online prompted the interest of several people, myself included and so on 19th February 2015 (despite me suffering some eye problems), Jim Brown, Joey Campbell, Alex Rochead and myself set off to […]