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Blantir

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A special thanks to all the Blantyreonians and Ex-Pats who have contributed to Blantyre's Ain Website...

They have certainly made my life a bit easier by suggesting content and supplying photographs, participating in the forum etc.

The site is regularly updated with new content and photos, so check back often...

If you have any old photographs of Blantyre or stories to tell, then we want to hear from you.

If you have any other suggestions as to what you would like to see within these pages, please let me know.

If you enjoy these pages then why not make a small donation to help keep them going and cover the running costs...

Once again, thanks for all your continued support and Sponsorship.

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Now you can wander 'roon Blantyre with the help of the Google camera.

BLANTYRE has been captured on Google’s new controversial street view application.

Some Blantyre streets which feature on street view are Callaghan Wynd, Stonefield Road, Glasgow Road, Victoria Street and Calder Street. Blantyre’s famous landmark the David Livingstone Centre is also featured on the virtual map.

Three boys are also pictured waving at the camera on Glasgow Road and a keen gardener is pictured tending to their garden on Station Road.

The new tool allows people to take virtual walks through streets, view landmarks and even look up addresses.

Google cars were seen in the Blantyre area last year capturing the images with a 360 degree camera.

To see Blantyre and other parts of South Lanarkshire, visit google.co.uk


Sponsorship

In order to keep Blantyre's Ain Website alive, Sponsorship is a real necessity. We have been live for nine years now and until recently have been self funded.

Without sponsorship the site will ultimately self destruct as costs cannot be maintained by the Webmaster.

I therefore urge you, if you enjoy the web site and it's contents, to then help ensure it's continuation by making a small donation. All donations, no matter how small, will be gratefully appreciated.

Special thanks to Drew Semple and John Dowie who both donated £10.00 in July 2008. And a Special thanks to Frances Maguire from Blantyre who Donated £5.00 in August. Robert Brownlie of Robert W Brownlie Motor Engineers who donated £100.00 in September. I told him I was dumbfounded at his generousity and he replied:

Hello Bill, thank you for your kind words.

There's no need for you to be dumbfounded, what I did was easy,its what you have done that's dumbfounding Bill !

I don't think you realise that what you have put into this site has given many people the world over many happy hours remembering days gone bye, quite often the best days of their live's!

And none of it possible without you!

So thank you, from all of us,

Robert. . . . .

Also, a Special Thanks to Mary Dodd who also donated £10.00 in October. Mary was in my class at School and remembered that I was a fan of Paul Anka back then... A Special Thanks to Jim Whelan who donated £10.00 in November and £10.00 in December and also for his many poems... Thanks also to Kathleen Parks who kicked off 2009 with a £10.00 donation in January... and also William Ross who donated £10.00... Thanks also to Jim Gebbie and Archie Peat who both donated £10.00 in February... and Duncan Slater who kindly donated £20... and Kathleen Parks who donated another £10... and Fred Crainer who Donated £10.00... Thanks also to Elizabeth McLean for her Thankyou Card and £20.00 Donation... and Kathleen Parks who donated another £10.00 in March... and thanks also to Lon McIlwraith who donated £10.00 plus some hilarious poems... A Special thanks to Jim Barrie from Toronto who not only bought me a few beers at the Parkville but also donated £10.00... and Kathleen Parks who donated another £10 in April... and a Beautiful Card and a whopping £50.00 from Betty Weaver... now exiled in Yorkshire... Thanks Betty... and my Classmate Mary Dodd who saved the day again with her generous donation in June... and also our good friend Jimmy Whelan who also donated in July and October along with Barry Carrigan... and Andy Little from Australia... Thanks Guys... Thanks again to Kathleen Parks for her kind donation in December... Thanks again to Betty Weaver who kicked off 2010 with another generous donation of £50.00... and our good friend Jimmy Whelan who donated in February... and another generous donation of £50 from Sam Kennedy in Cheshire... and my Classmate Mary Dodd who donated generously again in April... and John Dowie, an old neighbour who donated in May... And our good friend, Robert Brownlie who came up trumps again in June with a very generous donation... and our resident vocalist, Drew Semple who donated in July...

 

 

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