Near the end of June 2011, Contractors moved in to demolish Calder Street Secondary School. The Intermediate school which opened in 1912, was just 1 year short of its Centenary, though news of its imminent demolition and a wrongly written account (by others) of it opening in 1910, led to the school actually celebrating a […]
Digging in my garden last year, I found this strange object. Does anybody know what it is? It does look like its some sort of water collection vessel, with a hole drilled in the sandstone block to ’empty it’. I have no idea how old it is or what it was used for. It […]
This next story took place 155 year ago in Blantyre Stores, in the Village, Low Blantyre in the building which is now the Village Bar on Station Road. About two o’clock on Friday 23rd January 1863 three boys from Blantyre works were employed at Blantyre Stores for the day only. James Maxwell, William Maxwell […]
I was invited in November 2015, to take a photo at Auchinraith Primary School, something interesting from days gone by, now in the playground. Two of the 4 sandstone blocks, once saying “Blantyre Parish School Board” on the front of the former school, were salvaged in 2010 and are now used as a benches for […]