A good show was put on by Blantyre Boxers in April 1978 at Meadowbank where the Scottish Youth Boxing Championships were being held. Three were among the medals. Sixteen year old Hugh Kelly who boxed with the Blantyre Miner’s Welfare Club lifted the Bantamweight Class B title. Fellow colleague William Johnstone (16), boxing lightweight just […]
Mr. William Downie (Junior) – b1845-d1893. Born in Blantyre in 1845 to father William Downie Senior and a Blantyre lady named Ellen, he was an only child, who would always live with his parents at Kirkton even into his 30’s. In the 1861 census, 16-year-old William Junior was an apprentice grocer, learning the family […]
Mr William Johnstone was a baker, during the 1850’s and 1860’s at High Blantyre. He is recorded as providing the meal for the local curlers or the ploughing societies and had premises in High Blantyre’s Main Street. This consisted of a double tenement near Kirkton, and included a bake-house, the Post Office, two shops (1 of […]