In October 1916, the Blantyre Picture House, like many cinemas all over Britain were showing a new film. “The Battle of the Somme”. At the height of war, this was a chance for Blantyre people to see what was happening at the front. At E.H Bostocks, Picture House on Glasgow Road during the last Monday, […]

As this post is scheduled at 7.30am, it marks the occasion of EXACTLY one hundred years ago on 1st July 1916 when the Battle of the Somme in France started. Over one million British Soldiers were to die at the Somme, and on the first day alone over 50,000 men died. Can you imagine that […]