Despite best endeavours, I’ve not been able to name this Cameronian Solider. Photographed by Blantyre photographer David Ritchie, sometime between 1905 and 1910, the man in this previously unseen photo is likely from Blantyre. I’d thought the backdrop was a sheet which the photographer sometimes used to mask stone or unattractive buildings providing a more […]
What a great WW1 photo of Arthur Leggat of Springpark, Auchentibber shared here by Isabella Fleming via Alex Rochead! I had wondered what the little separate satchels were for on the leather band around his chest? Carmen King Gallagher provided the answer by telling me, “Around 1903 the Bandolier was used in the Second Boer […]
The last of Margaret Stewart’s interesting photos from her family album. Kindly shared here from 1918, with a likely Blantyre interest is a nurse and who appears to be a decorated French soldier. The other photo, also with people unidentified shows a dining room set up, perhaps in a French hospital for medical staff. This […]
Robert Nimmo was born at either Clyde Row or Peesweep in Auchentibber, on 3rd September 1894. He was the second son of James and Jane Nimmo. He went on to become a solider, but sadly lost his life in North Russia at the tail end of WW1. Private Robert Nimmo was one of 14 local […]
Pictured is the old Millheugh Bridge, pre second world war and before the current replacement was built. The road beyond leads past Dechmont Hill at Cambuslang and into Blantyre. The scene is very similar as today, if you of course ignore the graffiti and rubbish fly tipping. The original bridge is likely to have dated […]