Council park workers based at Blantyre’s Stonefield Park staged a two-day strike on Monday and Tuesday at the end of August 1977, over a bonus dispute with Hamilton District Council. The 25 gardeners, labourers and drivers took strike action after claiming that the council failed to implement a bonus scheme for 11 of the men. […]
How’s this for a photo! Previously not seen online, these three workers are on Auchinraith Road, standing outside the former Auchinraith Primary School. Posing for the camera, this photo was taken between 1905 – 1910 and is therefore over 110 years old! The men look like they’re carrying white work clothes, perhaps bakers or painters […]
This Blantyre photo from the 1920’s shows what appears to be Co-op workers at the back of a building. Judging by the lack of stripes on their aprons, I don’t believe they were fleshers, but may have been working in the dairy or bakery department. I’m inclined to think these are the bakers for […]