On October 29, 1892, in Blantyre, men gathered to inspect a new ambulance waggon. Mr. Hastie’s telephone installation provided entertainment and curiosity until an unexpected call about a supposed accident at Auchenraith Colliery sent the ambulance rushing, only to discover it was a test. The gathering shifted back to its original purpose, discussing the new waggon.
The Bothwell Road, near Hamilton was the scene, on Saturday 10th December 1921, of a sad motor fatality which killed a young Blantyre miner who had simply been out walking with his sweetheart. The victim was Patrick Heffron (21), who resided with his sister, Mrs Cassidy at 5 Greenside Street, Low Blantyre. Patrick had been […]
You may have seen this postcard which features an Ambulance in Blantyre during World War 1. Information published by others has been incorrect in both a published book and online and I wanted to correct the detail here. From October 1914, Blantyre residents were engaged in raising money to build and equip a motor ambulance […]
I recently received an email where Blantyre Project reader Muir Wasson, kindly scanned and provided some old photos of Blantyre. Muir wrote, “I was brought up in Blantyre from by birth in 1935 until I left in 1957 and have many memories of that time. We lived first in Morris crescent and then in Monteith […]