In 1838, an argument raged between a Mr Wallace who lived downstream of Blantyre and with Messrs Henry Monteith & Co, the owners of Blantyre Mills. The problem was that Monteith had fully dammed the Clyde, by upgrading the weir and suddenly downstream, where once had hundreds of years of Salmon thriving, were now suddenly […]
A peculiar story happened in Blantyre in July 1906 which ended up being a waste of police resources and embarrassing for all concerned. On Sunday 7th July 1906, around 11pm a worried mother reported to police that her boy was missing and she feared he had drowned. The story given to police was that around […]
Kelly Ann McCormick sent in this lovely video of Blantyre Weir earlier this morning of today’s snowfall from David Livingstone Bridge, the Village, Blantyre. Taken on Tuesday 9th February 2021, the slow motion effect making it rather spellbinding! What a lovely place we Blantyre people live in!
High up on the fields above Udston (now where the Westcraigs housing estate is) Private Weir of the Mechanical Transport section of the 4th Lanarkshire Battalion training on a motorcycle in 1942. Mr Weir is on the bike and his trainer looks on. Taken during the middle of WW2, the home guard played an important […]
The next in a new series of colourised old photos. Here’s what happens when you put a quality 1904 black and white image and colourise. A hundred and sixteen year old photo brought back to life in colour, letting us see what the demolition of Blantyre Mills must have looked like! In the foreground the […]
Gord Fotheringham who used to live in the village sent in this great photo. Taken in the 1950’s, it’s been recently colourised. The gang at the River Clyde weir is…. on top Snowy Rouse, Gord is the head you can see and also possibly John (Coby) McGuire. A brilliant Summer photo of friends having a […]
At the end of May 2019, Alex Rochead dropped by my house one weekend to hand in 2 old plans, relating to work done to the Blantyre Weir during the 19th Century! The first dates to 1806-07, incredibly 213 years ago, before the Battle of Waterloo and just 20 years after the creation of Blantyre […]