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Sgt William S Graham

July 25, 2020

Rhona Johnsen sent me these interesting photos adding, “Reading your posts about wartime Blantyre I wanted to tell you the story of my great Aunt Grace. Born in 1913 as Grace Mains (father Robert Maxwell Mains and mother Helen Sorbie). She married William Stevenson Graham who was killed in the Second World War in the […]

Gunpowder Explosion 1863

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July 24, 2018

Blantyre Events

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This next story took place 155 year ago in Blantyre Stores, in the Village, Low Blantyre in the building which is now the Village Bar on Station Road. About two o’clock on Friday 23rd January 1863 three boys from Blantyre works were employed at Blantyre Stores for the day only. James Maxwell, William Maxwell […]