On Tuesday 29th July 1902, play during the school holidays went terribly wrong when several children were seriously injured at Craighead Rows, Blantyre. That Summers evening workmen were making some repairs and had been working with tar. Barrels of Tar lay close to the Criaghead Rows, (miners homes, just off Glasgow Road). When the men […]
Alex Black shared this photo. He told me, “This is a bus run to Saltcoats from Muir Street High Blantyre, circa 1950. My mum’s family (Baird’s) along with friends & neighbours.” Do you recognise anybody?
From the Sunday Post 5th September 1926. “On inquiry at the Royal Infirmary tonight, The Sunday Post learned that the Lithuanian miner and his wife, who were seriously wounded in a sensational affair at Blantyre, are fairly comfortable. The couple are Kazimeras Skudauckas, who has nasty wound in the throat, and his wife, Ore, who […]