To hundreds of kids throughout Blantyre, Cathy McInally (pictured) is a familiar face. This photo (i think) is from 1992 and Cathy had been playgroup leader at the Jack Horner playgroup in High Blantyre for some 21 years. This photo represents putting one family through TWO generations at the same playgroup. Pictured also is little […]
Local man, Jamie Stirling shared this with me a few weeks ago. His wee girl Sophie had a class task about Blantyre and wrote up this excellent poem. Typed up in the library, schoolgirl Sophie won a little reward for such a first class effort. I love to see local children taking an interest […]
On Wednesday 2nd March 1927, 2 Blantyre men were in trouble in the court. John Stirling (18) and James McGrorty (20), both resided at Central Buildings on Glasgow Road (roughly where RBOS is now). They were charged with having between 18th and 20th February 1927 breaking into a magazine store at Gartshore Pit 11 […]
This transcribe of Elizabeth Whitelaws (nee Stirling) story is continued from Part 1.…. “At Easter, we had hard boiled eggs which our mother made a different colour in some way known to her. We went to quite a steep hill in a paddock and rolled our eggs to the bottom of the hill. This actually […]
In May 2014, I was contacted by Blantyre Project reader Linda Robertson who lives in Western Australia. Her grandmother Elizabeth McGregor Whitelaw (nee Stirling) was born on 19th February 1910. Although Elizabeth was born in Burnbank, the family moved to Blantyre shortly after when she was young child. Later in life, Elizabeth had the foresight […]