I’ve been exploring the miners strike of summer 1894 and the lengths people were going to, just to ensure food for their families. As I’ve posted about recently, crime was on the rise and the theft of food was significantly on the rise. Early on Wednesday 8th August 1894, a confectionary shop owned by Mrs […]
Who remembers Tommy Morgan’s shop on Station Road? It will take a person of a certain age to recall this little wooden shop, which stood isolated and standing itself on a big open plot of land. During the 1950’s and 60s it was run by Tommy MORGAN and his wife. It was a wooden hut, […]
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Going back now to 21st April 1977. Pictured from Stonefield Road (roughly where the bus stop is today) is the site clearance for the Larkfield Hall and flattening of the former bing. The building is Collinses former shop and bakery (on the site of the later Mahatten, Finbarrs, Carrigans). Broompark Road runs along the left […]
I’m pleased to announce further functionality here on this website with the marvellous addition of the brand new “Shop”, listing all Blantyre Project NINE book products in detail. It’s now live at https://blantyreproject.com/blantyre-shop/ The online book shop makes it easy for any visitor to browse what kind of Blantyre book they wish to buy, depending […]
This photo was taken in the 1910s or early 1920s. Pictured is the Village Sweet Shop in Mid Row, and in the photo are sisters Miss Margaret Hamilton and her sister Annie. In 1915, Margaret Hamilton was the young proprietor of houses 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 Mid or Middle Row. The shop […]
In late February 1900, at Hamilton Sheriff Court, Elizabeth McCann, a 12-year old Blantyre girl stood in the dock awaiting to be charged. She was the daughter of William McCann, a miner who resided at Central Buildings on Glasgow Road. She was charged with 3 different acts of theft from shops in Blantyre. The […]