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![Pan American World Airways](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Pan_American_World_Airways-225x225.jpg) 3000 Miles Alone |
![Chieftain Bus at Stoneymeadow](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chieften-Bus-Stoneymeadow-225x225.jpg) The Happiest Bus On the Blantyre Road |
![24-year-old Mary Limerick](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mary-125x225.jpg) High-Speed High Seas Romance For Mary From High Blantyre. |
![Craighead House on the outskirts of Blantyre, photographed in 1870 by Thomas Annan.](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Craighead-House-c1870-225x225.jpg) Roman Catholic Rally at Blantyre |
![Priestfield Rows](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Priestfield-Terrace-225x225.jpg) Heroes of Blantyre |
![The Blantyre Romance.](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/sheriff-court-plaque-225x225.jpg) The Blantyre Romance |
![Boat House](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Boat-House-300-225x225.jpg) The Story of Alexander McCallum Scott |
![A.R.P](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ARP-225x225.jpg) Over 1,000 Volunteers at Blantyre |
![Blantyre Lodge 1859 map](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blantyrelodge1859-225x225.jpg) Blantyre Lodge |
![Famous Players who started at Blantyre Victoria F.C.](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Blantyre-Victoria-Badge-300.jpg) Famous Players who started at Blantyre Victoria F.C. |
![Ken 'hurri-ken' McKinlay 1928-2003](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/kenmckinlay-220x225.jpg) How I began – Ken McKinlay |
![Hastie's Whisky Returns Home](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/whiskey2-225x225.jpg) Hastie’s Whisky Returns Home |
![Roll of Honour As displayed in Calder Street Secondary School](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Roll-of-Honour-3-225x225.jpg) Roll of Honour |
![Gambling Tossing School](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pitch-and-Toss-wee-225x225.jpg) Gambling Tossing School |
![A Poem Worth Reading](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/A-Poem-Worth-Reading-225x225.jpg) A Poem Worth Reading |
![School Strike Threat at Blantyre](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/grampas-photo-2-225x225.gif) School Strike Threat at Blantyre |
![Fatal Boxing Bout at Blantyre](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/boxing-bout-225x205.jpg) Fatal Boxing Bout at Blantyre |
![Murderous Assault on the Police at Blantyre](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bare_knuckle_two.jpg) Murderous Assault on the Police at Blantyre |
![Birch for Blantyre Boy](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/birch-rod-225x194.jpg) Birch for Blantyre Boy |
![Decoration for a Blantyre Nurse](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nonamexxxxx-225x225.jpg) Decoration for a Blantyre Nurse |
![Jimmy Brownlie lived in the Hoolet's Nest](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Jimmy-Brownlie-225x225.jpg) Death of Jimmy Brownlie’s Father |
![Blantyre Cottage Hospital](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Cottage-Hospital-225x225.jpg) Blantyre Cottage Hospital to be Closed |
![Milheugh House, as it was before the second world war](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Millheugh-House2-225x225.jpg) Blantyre Trespassers Fined |
![Loss of Six Lives](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Colliery-Paintings-Miners-225x225.jpg) Loss of Six Lives |
![Blantyre Silver Band](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Blantyre-Silver-Band-225x225.jpg) Band Contest at Blantyre |
![Dr Cowan Wilson Memorial Arch](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Cowan-Wilson-Memorial-Arch-225x225.jpg) Dr John Cowan Wilson |
![Miners alleged to have used Revolvers](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/shooting-revolver.jpg) Wild Scenes at Blantyre |
![Dookit Day Oot](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Dookit-Day-Oot-web-225x225.jpg) Dookit Day Oot |
![Serious Fire in Blantyre](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Serious-Fire-225x225.jpg) Serious Fire in Blantyre |
![No Legend - Plane Story is True](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/uva-225x199.jpg) No Legend – Plane Story is True |
![Scottish Churchyard Treasure Hoax](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/treasure.jpg) Scottish Churchyard Treasure Hoax |
![The House by the Mill in the Meadow](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Milheugh-1915-500-225x225.jpg) Move to Purchase Milheugh Estate |
![Emigration to the USA](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Anchor-Line-Ad-USA-225x225.jpg) Emigration to the USA |
![The Blantyre Electric Cinema, nicknamed,"The Fleapit"](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Livingstonian-300-225x225.jpg) The Blantyre Electric Cinema, nicknamed,”The Fleapit” |
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