Here’s some great photos. The older one is a St Joseph’s School trip to the Forth Rail Bridge around 1960. The other photos were taken in 1994 when a St Joseph’s class reunion took place in Blantyre. All the people featured were in the class of Gerard McGarry who left Blantyre for the United States […]
This charming photo was taken in 1994 when Gerard McGarry, a former Blantyre resident, travelled from the United States back to his birth town. Gerard, brought up in Fin Me Oot visited Blantyre again that year seeking out the places of his childhood, like for example, his former school at St Josephs. He’s pictured here […]
Blantyre will remember 7th January 2016. The day the old St Joseph’s Primary School in Glasgow Road got bulldozed to the ground. The popular school was well known and attended by many people on this page and I’m sure will have a lot of memories for loads of Blantyre folk. With the new school already […]