A wonderful photograph of Blantyre Priory taken in 1920 by Robert MacLeod (Snr). I’ve scanned it in in High Resolution , which can be clicked upon to enlarge it and see the detail. Incredibly, a lot of the structure remains then, by comparison to the few stones there today. Blantyre Priory was founded in the […]
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Tragedy in Self Defence
On the evening of Wednesday 9th January 1907, an old fashioned “square go” had a profound and devastating effect on Blantyre’s youth. I wouldn’t like to comment on comparing it in any way to modern times, but the story is an interesting one. James Wallace was 22 years of age and lived with his parents […]

