John Meechan shared nostalgic photos from a school trip to Portabello in 1960, featuring friends from St Joseph’s School. Additionally, he provided images from a 50th reunion held at The KSC club in Blantyre, showcasing the same group of boys 30 years later, evoking cherished memories.
On the evening of Friday 1st March 1895, St Joseph’s Amateur Minstrels put on a grand entertainment in the Masonic Hall, Stonefield, Blantyre. I always like to read about the descriptions at such concerts for the public, imagining what it would be like in those days before radio and tv, going out to be entertained. […]
By 1895, St Joseph’s Church (the first one on Glasgow Road) was in its 17th year having been founded properly in 1878. Father Frawley was the first Rector and was fondly remembered even decades later. About the time of the 1877 Blantyre Pit Disaster, when so much of the community was decimated, Father Frawley’s health […]
On Sunday 24th November 1895, after having undergone extensive renovations, the Church of St Joseph’s on Glasgow Road Blantyre formally re-opened. This was a time before the current sandstone church, and for the purposes of this article, I’m talking about the older church (pictured in this beautiful photo) which was once on the site of […]
How about this wonderful school photo with Blantyre kids! Incredibly, this is a school photo from St Joseph’s School, around 1932 or 1933. Just after the Great Depression, this was a full 6 or 7 years before the outbreak of WW2. Mary (McCue) Meaux shared the photo from her family collection. She told me, “Near […]
With thanks to Claire Murray for sharing this great photo. This was 1962 on a school trip from St.Joseph’s to MacDuff with some people from Blantyre. They stayed in an empty school as it was during the summer holidays where they slept on camp beds and were taken around to see the sights on the […]
This post WW2 photo goes back to May 1949 and was taken outside the front of St.Joseph’s Church, Glasgow Road. It was the procession for Our Lady of Fatima. Angela McGlynn who shared the picture told me, “The bearers were Mary Dickson, Mary Hassan, Kathleen Clifford and Annie Corrigan ( back right, my mother). The […]