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 […]
Pictured here in the 1950s, at the Bowling Club is Nimmo’s Band. Margaret Nimmo Lehmann from Canada told me, “The band leader was William (Willie) Nimmo, a cousin of James Nimmo of Auchentibber. Willie was from Auchentibber and his family ran a small sweet shop there. His daughter now lives in Canada.” Willie was an […]