Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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Blantyre Today

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A Pictorial Voyage Around Blantyre

Blantyre Wildlife
Now 111 Photos

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Forrest / Park's Family Album

Fotheringham Album

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Waugh Family

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Aerial Photos of Blantyre 1945

Fantastic Aerial Photographs of Blantyre, 1950

Blantyre Ferme AA

Billy Connolly
Visits Blantyre

Rock Carving
Photos by Gordon
Wilson Mason

Blantyre Priory Carving’s

Memories of
'The Dookit'

Recognise Your
Dad or Grandad?

Bring Our Boys
Home


Blantyre Thistle
1967 Reunion

Stonefield Boys Club
1971-72
Where are they now?

Jist nip 'roon the
back shoap fur a
wee hauf...

Warning, these photos may be hazardous to your well-being

A Day in a
Miners Life

For Our Bhoys Abroad

Poems

Poems About Blantyre

Poems About Miners

My Dream

September Solitude

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City of Heartbreak

The Welfare A.B.C.

The Call of Greenhall

The Ragman

Sunday Morning Nightmare

A Town with No Heart

The Roxy

The Special One

"Auld Glesga"

Primrose Mountain

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Auld Glasgow

The Old Wreckers Ball

Summertime Blues

A Wee Refreshment

Schools Oot

Field of Dreams

The Little Sphere

Absent Friends

Fat Cats

A Big Day Oot

Profound Thoughts

Remember This...

I Remember
Blantir

The day a goat
the Dividend

Blantyre's Past
by
James Cornfield

Colliers Every Wan
by James Cornfield

Tribute to Miners
- Sent in by Betty
McGaully

'Up the Cauther'
by Brian Cummiskey

A Stagger Roon
Blantir

Just a Common
Soldier

Remembrance Day

Slow Dance... and
Angel of Hope

Who said Scottish
guys aren't
romantic?


It's Christmas Day
All Is Secure


Ma Frien' The Robin

Lest We Forget

Thought for Today

About Time

A Precious Stone

Sweeties

Ode Tae Rabbie

Freedom

Ma Thoughts

The Boathouse

The Mill in the Meadow

A Blantyre Tale

A Breed Apart

In The footsteps Of A Giant

I Think My Daddy Is A Vampire

Little Cloud

A Wee Magic Place

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The Man Who Tamed Lions

Gaun Yersel Mel

Dysholm

The Rapper Up Man

Blantyre Priory

The Gaffer

Address tae a fart

The Bingo Bungle

You Can't Take The Man out of The Street

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Any Singers Any Songs?

To Exiles

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Come Jine Me

Glesca Wean

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School Run Mum

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Aint No Characters Anymore

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The Dandy

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The Pleasures of Love - King Charles II

Blantyre Gazette

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Second Chance

A Different Christmas Poem

My Dream of Scotland

Gordon Jackson visits Blantyre

Ne'rday

Scotland's Favourite Singers
Scotland's Favourite
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Caldergrove House

Fantastic sketches from the Priory to Bothwell Castle c1758

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A Short History of Blantyre

You've got One Guess as to where this is an Impression of...

Blantyre Priory Impression

Our friend on Facebook, John McDermott, an artist and True Blantyreonian who now lives in Exeter, commented that he would like to paint an impression of what The Priory might have looked like in its heyday. So, we gave him the challenge... and what an excellent result... well done John.

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Please sign our Petition: Some friends on Facebook commented on the atrocities of vandalism at the High Blantyre Cemetery, so we put up a Petition to take to Tam Greatex, our MP. Sign here.

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Finally, in co-operation with the management, Andy Paterson and myself, are pleased to inform you that our 1875 Map of Blantyre has finally been mounted in the Miners Resource Centre Reception. More

1875 Map

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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.

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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

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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.

A Special thanks to Robert Brownlie who donated £100.00 in September 2009. 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!

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The Dandy

Ask anyone in Blantyre
Where is the Priory Plantation?
They'll hum and haw and hum again
For some form of explanation.

Ask them, "Where's the Dandy?
And a look comes o'er their face.
There's nobody Blantyre born
That doesn't know this place.

This dear green place of old
Lies on the Blantyre Braes,
Just along from where the Villager's
Used to bleach their claes.

In days of old a path was laid
From Hamilton down to Newton,
Thru' Blantir to the Pey Brig
Nun's Walk and Railway Station.

This path was made for workers
Who toiled in Mill and Mine,
And helped them get to work
By bridge or ferry on time.

In spring when hearts awakened
Throbbing in young breasts,
Down this path they would go
Dressed in their Sunday best.

From the Village to the Priory
Along this path they'd stroll,
To meet Laddies or Lassies
In the summer times of old.

So, if you've ever wondered
Or perhap's you've even guessed,
This place was called The Dandy
Because of the way they dressed.

James Cornfield 2007

 

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