A photo from 1948, and little Betty Weaver (who has kindly shared this photo) stands in her back garden in Victoria Street. Betty told me, “This is just me, Betty Weaver as a baby on the path at the side of 104 Victoria St. In those days the garden was much bigger – I see […]
On 23rd March 1945, at the tail end of the Second World War, a Blantyre mother brought her 12 year old son before the School Management Committee to explain why he persisted in playing traunt. The lad alleged he was coaxed by a Blantyre firewood merchant to travel on his cart and help deliver around […]
In 1975 schools in High Blantyre were in crisis. The new Primary School had been opened in Broompark Road, but was not large enough for the number of children that lived within the capture area. This may have been due to new housing estates constructed around the same time of the Primary School. The old […]
A school photo from 1959 or possibly 1960. Calder Street School, Blantyre. My mother Janet Duncan is pictured on the far left. Next to her is my Aunt Flora Duncan (nee Glen). Do you know anybody else in the photo?
<<< Back to Schools Auchinraith Primary School opened at 3pm on the afternoon of Friday 31st August 1900. (Not 13th August as the late Neil Gordon had stated.) The Glasgow Herald reported the event stating that on the invitation of the Blantyre School Board, a party of some 70 guests, representative of all the local […]
Monday 26th October 1875 was a monumental day for Blantyre. In previous years the Village school at Blantyre Works had been filled to capacity and throughout 1875, no less than two new schools were being built. The first being Stonefield Parish School (affectionately known as Ness’s School) located on the later Caspers site, where the […]
We take sports as an important and vital part of school activities these days. One of the most popular sports being Football. It’s fun, exciting, very social and with health benefits. Rightly so. However, things were very different a 100 years ago. During November 1905 the Blantyre School Board Chairman reported his concern that there […]