A miner named Andrew Cosh of 4 Cross Row, Low Blantyre, was sharply fined at Hamilton Burgh Police Court in March 1920 for a brutal and unprovoked attack on a tramcar conductress. According the statement of the Fiscal, the girl had been busily engaged in collecting her fares in a crowded tramcar, when Andrew, most […]
As you’ll probably be aware, I like to provide good detail on the old, old history of Blantyre. 19th Century stories about people, buildings and places, now long forgotten. In my recent Glasgow Road book, I exclusively explored the older history of the Stonefield Tavern, before it became a pub in the 1880’s. Formerly […]
Francis Brown, a young man in custody, appeared for trial before Sheriff Brown and a jury in Hamilton Sheriff Court on Thursday 25th February 1937 on a charge of assault to the danger of life. The indictment libelled that on Ist January, 1937 in the pend close at 5 Stonefield Road (shown by a red […]
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 […]