Pictured here in 1950 is Duncan Kippen after a fire at Walkers Flour Mill, Blantyre Village. The story was shared to me from Gordon Cook who commented, “Walker’s old Wood Flour Mill. They ground down wood to such a fine extent, it was taken to Kirkaldy and other places (usually in Fife) and used in […]
An email arrived this week from Bridie Sheehan who said, “Hi Paul, I live in Canada but my father and grandparents grew up in Blantyre and I am hoping that you can help me with a couple of items. First, my grandfather was a coal miner and they lived from 1901 to 1951, mostly on […]
On Tuesday 26th April 1949, one of the River Clyde’s oldest landmarks passed into the limbo of forgotten Blantyre things. The suspension foot bridge linking Bothwell with Blantyre was closed on that Tuesday night, and shortly after, dismantled. Opened in 1852, four years after David Livingstone left Blantyre, the bridge was built by the firm […]