In April 1892, with Blantyre, Hamilton and Larkhall becoming more populated, the area received a brand new evening newspaper.
The “Lanarkshire Evening Guide” was published at 5pm at Hamilton on the last Monday of April 1892 and arrived in Blantyre each evening by train.
However, the Lanarkshire Evening Guide appears to have been one of several very short-lived local “evening guide”–style newspapers that emerged across industrial Scotland in the late 19th century. Unlike longer-running titles such as the Hamilton Advertiser, Wishaw Press, or Glasgow Evening Times, it does not survive as a continuous archival title, which strongly suggests it either ceased publication quickly or was absorbed/renamed within a few years.
