I’ve been focusing on 1909 and 1910 in recent weeks and found an interesting little snippet. A newspaper report in the’ Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly‘ on Wednesday 24th March 1909 told of a particular map which still at that time hung on the wall of the Village Hall, in Blantyre. The decorative map was […]
An absolutely cracking high resolution photo of St Joseph’s School Chapel. A snowy wintry scene from over 100 years ago. This former building once say where now the St Jospeph’s Hall is located on Glasgow Road, opposite the junction of Stonefield Road. The stone walls and pillars are actually listed, requiring to be protected and […]
An exclusive first look online at this amazing photo. Pictured in 1929, are the last days of the Blantyre Works School / Chapel. This was the year that nearby David Livingstone Memorial Centre opened and in Springtime of that year, proposals were made to transfer the old Works School, into part of that memorial. […]