Many people reading this page will now be aware of the fateful disaster on 22nd October 1877 where 216 men and boys lost their lives at Dixons Pits 2 and 3 , High Blantyre. This sad tale remembers the grief one of the mothers endured. Mr & Mrs George McLachlan lived at No 1 Jackson […]
Pictured here likely in the 1940s, is Blantyre man William L Gardner who lived at Stonefield Crescent. He was the Bakery manager for the Co-operative and would have worked at the site at Auchinraith Road. Thanks to Neil Scott for sharing this photo. William looks very finely dressed, a promotional picture perhaps for his success […]
On 12th November, Ian Dobson contacted me , sending in this photo from 1959. He told me, “The man with the greyhound is my dad’s father William Dobson. Not sure which track but he and my dad had greyhounds almost all their life. My dad used to take me too the dogs in Blantyre when […]
On 17th November 1967, the High Blantyre Primary School in Hunthill Road went on fire. It is unknown if it was started deliberately or accidentally. (This school was also later known as “The Annexe”). Pictured here in a brief newspaper article, is a picture of three positively elated boys whom had just been told the […]
These well turned out individuals in this photo are the family of Anderson men. The photo has been sent to us by Elizabeth Cardoo back in September 2013. Elizabeth writes “This is of my grampa , William Anderson (Wull) and his four sons, left to right, my dad Guy Anderson, Jim Anderson, Sanny Anderson Wull […]
William S Dixon (1824-1880) was a coal and iron magnate. Dixon was the third generation owner of the coal and iron firm of William Dixon Ltd, which had been built up by his grandfather and father. He assumed control on the death of his father, William Dixon, in 1859. The firm had long been in […]
Blantyre Priory was likely founded in the middle of the 13th Century. We see the seal of Blantyre Priory for the first time in history in 1290 on the document titled “The Articles of the Treaty of Brigham” which was signed by the Guardians of Scotland, clergy, and barons. This treaty outlined that Scotland was […]