Talk:Blantyre, South Lanarkshire

Requested move
I think that this content should be at Blantyre, Scotland. Blantyre, Malawi is the larger city by a factor of 50 and has roughly the similar number of links to it. This page should be a disambiguation page, linking to both cities and to possible future pages on the district of Malawi (a first-level administrative division) and to Blantyre in Transylvania County, North Carolina.


 * Support This is reasonable. However the move should be to Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, not to Blantyre, Scotland. -- Derek Ross | Talk 16:19, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'm changing the entry on requested moves to Blantyre, South Lanarkshire. -- Satyadasa 07:00, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 14:22, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm fairly sure that Christy Moore only sang this song; The Blantyre Explosion (Clyde's Bonnie Banks) is a traditional ballad. Russell 12:46, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC) In recent times,Blantyre singer /songwriter Drew Semple also recorded the song about the explosion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.40.17.181 (talk) 23:23, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Church Links
Is the church at the High Blantyre Cross the Old Parish Church?

Ronnie McCluskey
Journalist and philanthropist - anyone able to verify that - I've never heard of him, but a Google search reveals an amateur boxer from Blantyre with the same name???

BTW the Old Parish Church may be correct Ianguy 12:05, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Need for citations
As a contributor of part of this information, whilst it may be anecdotal, much is derived from me living my first 20 years there. However, certain aspects do not require formal attribution and can be crossed referenced readily (e.g. proximity to various rivers, places, etc., the mining disasters, David Livingstone, etc. Ianguy 01:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Translation into Chinese Wikipedia
The verion 02:53, 1 June 2012‎ Graham87 is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Wing (talk) 09:01, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Blantyre, South Lanarkshire. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120219123813/http://www.evoxfacilities.co.uk:80/evoxptn.html to http://www.evoxfacilities.co.uk/evoxptn.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Cheers. —cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 05:34, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Paragraph on Blantyre, Malawi
It sounds like Mandala is used as a substitute name to refer to Blantyre in Malawi today. In daily usage, Mandala is used to refer to a small part of Blantyre. Mandala comes from "The one wearing glasses/spectacles". The term was used to refer to the Moir brothers that had a trading store. One of them wore spectacles. The area around their store is called Mandala today. See: Society of Malawi I don't have a good source / citation but i'll try and find one   Sand13w (talk) 19:44, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 1 one external link on Blantyre, South Lanarkshire. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080708195143/http://www.mikefloate.clara.co.uk/blantyre.htm to http://www.mikefloate.clara.co.uk/blantyre.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 02:09, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Blantyre, South Lanarkshire. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120322055913/http://www.scrol.gov.uk/scrol/analyser/analyser?topicId=1&tableId=&tableName=Usual+resident+population&selectedTopicId=&aggregated=false&subject=&tableNumber=&selectedLevelId=&postcode=&areaText=&RADIOLAYER=&actionName=view-results&clearAreas=&stateData1=&stateData2=&stateData3=&stateData4=&debug=&tempData1=&tempData2=&tempData3=&tempData4=&areaId=094&levelId=4 to http://www.scrol.gov.uk/scrol/analyser/analyser?topicId=1&tableId=&tableName=Usual+resident+population&selectedTopicId=&aggregated=false&subject=&tableNumber=&selectedLevelId=&postcode=&areaText=&RADIOLAYER=&actionName=view-results&clearAreas=&stateData1=&stateData2=&stateData3=&stateData4=&debug=&tempData1=&tempData2=&tempData3=&tempData4=&areaId=094&levelId=4

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 09:17, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Adding disambiguation
I'm adding the 'for other uses' box at the top as Blantyre is also the name of a major city in Malawi, among other things. Coldspur (talk) 09:08, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Add it if you want, but the Malawian city is already specifically linked in the lead, and since it is designated the primary topic for Blantyre, while readers have to specifically type in "Blantyre, South Lanarkshire" or similar (eg "Blantyre, Scotland") to come to this page, there seems little need. Crowsus (talk) 14:50, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I've had to revert that edit, per my edit summary. Graham 87 15:29, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * All right, I understand. Apologies for the blunder. Coldspur (talk) 08:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * , I didn't notice your message before I made my reply. pings without signatures don't work (see the help page). Graham 87  14:22, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Got it. Please excuse my clumsiness today. Coldspur (talk) 21:14, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Etymology
Other etymologies
 * Baile an t-Saoir (town of the wright)
 * Llantir/Llantyr (sacred ground)
 * St Blane  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.249.184.158 (talk) 10:23, 14 November 2020 (UTC)