A sensitive story next from 1909, which I can’t help but feel there was more to. A warning that this article contains some upsetting content and you should be aware that despite the names being published in papers, I have decided to mask the identity of all surnames. In February 1909, a miner Francis C […]
Saturday 12th February 1910 saw a savage domestic incident at the Village spill out into the street, then later relived in Court. A warning this story, some 111 years old does contain upsetting content. John Irvine, a miner living at Waterloo Row had been paid that weekend and had spent the day drinking in Blantyre […]
Did you know that the foot-passage below the former railway viaduct at Craighead had to be shut for 1 full day every year as the terms and conditions of legal obligations of the railway? This certainly caused problems from time to time, and none more so than in November 1921 when Uddingston miner Richard Bellingham […]
On 28th January 1900, John Quirk, a miner carried out a fearful attack on his wife at Hart’s Land, Stonefield, Blantyre. The building was the scene where John took an AXE to his wife! On Wednesday 15th March 1900, he pleaded guilty to the attack and it was found that he had been in the […]
On 29th July 1940, a Blantyre school teacher, Quintin Smith, 325 Glasgow Road, Blantyre, was found not guilty in Hamilton J.P. Court of assaulting an 11-year-old pupil at Auchinraith Public School, Blantyre on June 25. The boy, John Cook, in the witness-box, said that along with other boys had been playing football in the school […]