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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 […]
Moving on to some weddings from 1980. (Was that really 39 years ago?!) Do you recognise any of the couples. We hope they have had long and happy marriages. All into the archives on Blantyre Project. As always, if any person featured in these photos wishes them to be removed from the archive, please just […]
Blantyre Lawn Tennis Club – Between 1910 and 1915, this local sports club established tennis courts and a pavilion at 81 Stonefield Road. The club arrangements were done through Mrs Catherine Weir of 16 Victoria Street. The club bought the land from the Trustees of John Clark Forrest. At that time the adjacent Bowling club were […]
My brother Ivan took this photo earlier this afternoon at Blantyre Weir. Whilst our walking, he observed salmon leaping out the water. He grabbed his camera and took this photo of a fine, mature salmon, nearly 2 feet long , jumping clear out the water. Good evidence of Salmon returning back to The Clyde at […]
Monks in Paisley were granted various extensive charters to net and to construct traps (yairs) in the year 1452AD for catching salmon in Loch Lomond, Rivers Leven, River Clyde and the Gare Loch. During the early 1700’s, long before the construction of Dales Mills a dam had been built on the River Clyde at Blantyre. […]
This is the tale of a High Blantyre teenager, who would have certainly remembered his Christmas 1929 and into New Year 1930. The 19-year old chancer stowed away on board a luxury passenger ship. However, this was no story of hiding in a lifeboat, or in an engine room. The sheer bravado of this Blantyre teen, saw […]
A drowning tragedy took place on Saturday 25th June 1932 at the Blantyre Weir, which spans the River Clyde, between Low Blantyre and Bothwell. Along with several companions 10-year old Alex, McDermott, who resided with his parents at 45 Murray’s Building, High Blantyre, was walking across the upper ledge of the dam. He lost his footing […]
This photo by Christopher Madden was taken in 2013 at Blantyre Weir. Looking down from the bridge , looking upstream, a log is trapped in the weir (where it had been for many months). Bizarrely , it looks a little like a stag or deer trying to leap up over the weir. The log […]
In Hamilton Sheriff Court on Wednesday 29th December 1932, Mr. Archibald Anderson, a miner of 16 Alpine Street, Low Blantyre tried to sue William Weir, baker and purveyor of 146 Glasgow Road, Blantyre. This was for £50 damages in respect of illness and loss of work alleged to have resulted through Archibald Anderson eating a pancake […]