These men had a real difficult job in front of them in October 1977 when they gathered in the High Blantyre Old Parish Church Hall to judge the efforts of the town’s young artists. For this was the climax of the competition, open to Blantyre schools, organised as part of the commemoration of the centenary […]
These three men were among over a thousand people who came to High Blantyre Cross on Sunday 23rdOctober 1977 to pay tribute to over 200 miners who died in the Blantyre Pit Disaster 100 years earlier. They were there to take part in the unveiling of the monument behind them, built in memory of the […]
As offsite construction of the Blantyre Pit Disaster memorial commenced, back in Blantyre, it was thought that putting a time capsule at the memorial would be appropriate. In late September 1977 the staff at the Clydesdale Bank in Glasgow Road had prepared a small exhibition of the contents of a large boxed time capsule for […]
Blantyre Old Parish Church has recently received a new minister. Sarah was welcomed to the Parish in recent weeks. This reminded me of an old Church newsletter that i still had. Passed to me from my mother, (as i was only 5 at the time), the newsletter features a picture of the Church in 1976, […]