We’re pleased to help out with Blantyre Gala Day by donating £106 worth of goodie bags for the SIX lucky children who will be crowned this year on Saturday 16th July. The gift bags, for 3 boys, 3 girls have toys, treats and sweets and will be presented to the local children on the stage […]
We like to support local businesses as well as individuals, so when we saw this wonderful old photo from 1893, of a fledgling Blantyre Vics Club and knew the club hadn’t seen it before, we decided to pay for an A3 huge print of the photo and donate it to them. The photo was formerly […]
We’ve used part of April’s sales revenue to buy some amazing top quality Awards to be handed out to the kids in the “Royal Parade” at Blantyre Gala Day on 9th July 2016! As always, Blantyre Community Committee will be crowning a Gala King & Queen, a Lord and Lady Blantyre and a Prince and […]
Life took an unpleasant and worrying direction in December 2015 for the Bruce family in Blantyre. Their son, Mason Bruce, (11) a pupil of High Blantyre Primary School had been suffering from headaches for over a year and on 10th December 2015 was rushed to Glasgow Sick Kids Hospital where a brain tumour was discovered. […]
Well done to our competition winner Susan Mayes who this week has won a brand new child’s scooter worth £35! Susan entered our competition by providing a sentence about her childhood memory in Blantyre and was chosen as the winner. The Scooter was hand delivered in to her parents house in High Blantyre on Sunday. […]
Three High Blantyre men were today awarded South Lanarkshire’s Community Service award for 2016. On the recommendation of local Councillors, Blantyre’s Gordon Cook, Jim Brown and Paul Veverka and their families were invited to a ceremony in the County Buildings this afternoon, Friday 18th March 2016. Amongst the good company of other nominees from throughout […]
Diane Scott recently emailed us to say, “My dad was born in Auchentibber, Blantyre in 1931 and grew up in low Blantyre. He’s now in a nursing home with dementia and I’m trying to get some old pictures to put up in his room as the places he can remember. Do you know where I […]
Blantyre boy John Paul Doyle has come up with a novel idea for fundraising for Saint Andrew’s Hospice. With his assistance and from his own idea, a group of high school students and teachers from Saint John Ogilvie High School are participating in a 12 hour game of football to raise money in aid of […]