Pictured here at the door of the former Auchentibber Inn is barman Bob Soutter and Mr Wallace. Wallace was a miner and was a keen quoiting player, though I cannot presume he was a regular in the pub. Robert Soutter was the barman for J.B.H Struthers, looking after the pub. This remarkably clear photo, I […]
Next, we have a few weddings from 1967. First up is Miss Ann Wallace of Glasgow Road, Blantyre who married Mr Alistair Walker of Home Farm, Douglas. The couple were married at Anderson Church on Stonefield Road. Alistair was a constable with Lanarkshire County Police stationed at Cambuslang but was in the process of moving to […]
Agnes Cook recently shared this wonderful photo. Pictured are her great grandparents Thomas and Helena Thomson and her granny, Margaret Wallace. The other person is unknown. They’re outside the front of the North Lodge of Calderwood Castle, a house which still exists today, just off Stoneymeadow Road. This family also stayed at 159 Main Street […]
In early December 2016, John Sproat contacted me saying, “I ‘googled’ Barnhill, as I have been researching my ancestors, and found your website. My several-times great grandfather through my mother’s side, one John Wallace, was noted as being a ‘Smith’ (blacksmith) from Barnhill. The reference is to be found in Old Parish Records: OPR […]
How did people manage to cheat their gas meters in Blantyre in 1931? Reports suggest it was a common practice for people to put false coins in the gas and electricity meters and then to repay the collectors later for the supply they obtained by these means. Such was the statement of an agent […]
Isn’t it great when you can get to a point in historical research of starting to recognise people that lived a 100 years ago! That happened to me recently, when I saw this photo of the Auchentibber Inn (old name Auchintibber). Pictured between 1905 – 1908 when the Inn was newly renovated, two men stand […]
“Andrew Wallace, farmer, West Bosfield Farm, East Kilbride, appeared at Hamilton J.P. Court in September 1937 in connection with the alleged theft of two heifers. Wallace was remanded by the Court on Saturday charged with having on September 23rd, from a field on Lettrickhill Farm, High Blantyre, occupied by Mrs Boyd, stolen two black polled […]