A brand new butchers opened in Blantyre on Saturday 19th May 2018 on Glasgow Road! Strachan Craft Butchers opened to busy crowds of customers that morning with launch celebrations including a raffle and some amazing deals. I was pleased to be invited along and handed in a raffle prize, taking some photos to capture the […]
A few more Blantyre weddings from 1978 for you all! Hamilton girl Miss Lynda Marshall married Ian Gilmour of 12 Stonefield Place in 1978 in Hamilton North Church. Also that year, Elaine McLean of Hamilton married John Chalmers of 3 Spruce Avenue, Blantyre. The couple wed in Hillhouse Parish Church. and finally , happy Blantyre […]
The Hamilton Advertiser on 4th July 1931 published a story about the death of a well known colliery official, reading, “It was with regret that the news was learned on Thursday, 25th June, of the death of Peter Malcolm Strachan, a very popular colliery-undermanager throughout the Lanarkshire coalfield, and the last of a very prominent […]