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Bryan Family, Blantyre

Blantyre People
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Some good old fashioned ancestry research today. Brian Wilson messaged me saying, “My cousin and I have been doing some family tree research and it would appear that our great grandmother Margaret Bryan nee Reid died in Stonehouse Sanitorium in 1917 her normal residence being “Thornlea”, Blantyre. We have had a look online for Thornlea, […]

Bloomfield Cottage, Blantyre

Blantyre Buildings, Blantyre Glasgow Road
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From the illustrated social history book… “Blantyre – Glasgow Road, The Real Story” by Paul Veverka (c) 2016 – 2018.    ‘Bloomfield Cottage’ was a former detached home on Glasgow Road sandwiched in a long narrow strip of land between Nimmo’s Land to the east and the Stonefield Parish School to the west.    It […]