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So who are these two Blantyre boys so smartly dressed and enjoying a day out? The year is 1959 and they’re aboard the ‘Queen Mary 2’, Clyde Steamer on a Lanarkshire Farmers’ Sail. Why, it’s none other than Alex Rochead (left) and Sandy Wilkie! The ship was built on the Clyde in 1933 and carried […]
In March 1985, Blantyre and District Round Table held a Boxing Dinner and Cabaret at the County Inn in Cambuslang. Wilkie of Blantyre, the well known milk business invited along many local guests. Enjoying some hospitality were the following people, a good read as kindly sent in from Sandy Wilkie.
More 1978 weddings for you, the last for that year! Pictured is well known Blantyre man Sandy Wilkie of Bardykes Farm who married his beautiful bride, Miss Aisla Thomson of Carnwarth. Also that year, Blantyre couple, Mr Joseph Kane of Burnside Crescent married Miss Grace Keenan of Kirkwall Avenue, their wedding taking place at St Joseph’s […]
My friend Alex Rochead showed me this photo, kindly sent to him from Sandy Wilkie. It is of course a poster for the much remembered, Blantyre Highland Games. A great little piece of Blantyre nostalgia. Sandy was of course directly and primarily involved in the Highland Games, which took place for the first time in […]
What a fantastic photograph this is. It was taken in Dunblane Hydro Hotel in 1974, the event being Peter and Margaret Wilkie’s Silver Anniversary. A treasured photograph shared by their son, Sandy. Now, this photo reads like a real “whos who in Blantyre” of that year and as well as being a happy occasion […]
Peter, Margaret, Margo and Agnes Wilkie. (Is that Sandy on the far left?) Perhaps the family can tell us a little more about this lovely family photo? Shared by Sandy Wilkie. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said, Betty McLean Love the […]
Thanks to Sandy Wilkie for permitting sharing this photo of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Wilkie. The Wilkie family of Bardykes have been well known in Blantyre throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said,: Gillian Cunningham Strict dress […]
Thanks to Helen Williams for sending me this photo. Pictured are members of Blantyre Round Table. I was hoping some people could perhaps tell me the date (even just the year?), although I suspect it’s the 1980s. The seven men were flying from Glasgow to Malawi with a £70,000 cargo of charity goods. Their cargo […]
The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th-century Holiness movement in North America around 1907. The Beginnings The Holiness work in Blantyre began in March 1907, the following year the American movement commenced. It was originally called the ‘Blantyre Holiness Mission’ but changed name in 1910 to become the ‘Blantyre Pentecostal Church.’ When they initially formed they […]