Lynn Dougela shared this great photo. She told me, “This is my mum Margaret Taylor nee Houston and her sister Catherine Houston. This picture was the May procession from Saint Josephs around 1942. My mum is 83 and still in Blantyre and my aunt will be 88 and end of this month.” A little touch […]
A riot broke out in High Blantyre Main Street on the night of Friday 23rd July 1920. Some of you may be thinking, “well, nothing new there then!”, but you would be wrong, for this was much more serious than any quarrel. On that evening, almost 100 years ago, angry men took to the streets […]
More Blantyre News from 20th January 1967. Some little interesting snippets of what was going on back then , that week. Coatshill Tyre Spree “Police have received a number of complaints of tyres being slashed in the Coatshill area of Blantyre. Enquiries are being made as a sharp instrument is thought to have made […]
Continued from Blantyre Vics Part 1 The current and present club that arose from the ashes was formed in 1900, but again as juniors. The team were reconstructed that year as a professional football team. The story is that the team was formed from a crowd of boys who hung around the corner of Rosendale, […]
A Brownie is a member of a Guiding organization for girls aged seven years old to ten years old. Exact age limits are slightly different in each organization. After the age of about 9 a girl can “fly up” to become a Girl Guide. Lord Baden- Powell first organised the Brownies in 1914, to complete […]
There’s a good description of the Remembrance Day service in a local newspaper on 14th November 1942. How much more personal this service must have been to the people , actually experiencing the war and losing those men in those same years. “A very large turnout of the Blantyre Company of the Home Guard under […]
Pictured here in 1911, is Low Blantyre Station , pictured from the North platform, looking towards Glasgow. Scanned in high resolution, you can make out quite a bit of detail including the iron pedestrian footbridge in the background, and further back beyond it the iron road bridge. Two figures stand on the side and i […]