As days go, today’s been pretty productive. Got some words written up about David Livingsone’s visit back to Blantyre, shopping, down Clydeside buying plants, back home gardening and grass cut. However, I did stop for a moment, when I had TWO visitors today. Blantyre Project readers John Dunsmore (wee Yanni) and his pal, Sanny McVicar […]
Sincere thanks go out today to local man, John Dunsmore (Wee Yanni) whom, in the last couple of days took time out and at his own cost, to repair and renovate the wording on the High Blantyre Pit Memorial. Following our clean up of the memorial at Kirkton last week, John noticed that the wording […]
Pictured here back on Tuesday 26th July 2016 is John Dunsmore (Wee Yanni). John is a frequent visitor to Blantyre Project and well known to me and to the rest of the Veverka family. This kind soul is passionate about Blantyre and a fellow member of the Friends of the Calder Group. I have […]
Richard Rankin took these three photos in early October 2014. Shared here, they feature an interesting inscription on the side of a rock, adjacent to the River Calder. It says “Wee Yanni Pool”. The exact location is on the left river bank at Crossbasket. Richard said, “I first noticed this years ago up trouting, at […]