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 […]
By the start of the 20th Century, the mission of St Joseph’s had made remarkable progress since its inception in 1877. For a considerable time prior to that, the Catholics of Blantyre had their spiritual requirements administered in Hamilton. Mass however, was celebrated and Sunday School conducted in a block of houses in Dixon’s Rows, […]
On Saturday 17th June 1905, the Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly Newspaper issued an article to let excited readers know about the handsome new church which had just been erected for the congregation of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Blantyre. It says, “The edifice will be solemnly and formally opened tomorrow (Trinity Sunday) by […]
This was just a section of the enormous crowd which gathered and lined up along Glasgow Road for the funeral of a popular Blantyre Priest in 1930. The camera looks toward the entrance of St Joseph’s Church and the funeral of Rev. Father Thomas O’Halloran which took place on the morning of Wednesday, 1st October […]
A beautiful wedding photo next! On Wednesday 23rd July 1930, Mr Peter MONTGOMERY of Hamilton married Miss Catherine GUY of Blantyre. They wed at St Joseph’s Church on Glasgow Road, Blantyre and the priest is pictured too. In case any relative of this family are reading this, a little more is known about the photo. […]