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Case Of The Vanishing Tent

November 11, 2016

Two Glasgow labourers appeared at Perth Sheriff Court on Thursday 7th September 1950. Michael Shannon (42), and James Marshall Lang (17), both of Whins Camp, Blantyreferme, Blantyre. They admitted that on August 11the from a camp on Welton Farm, near Blairgowrie, with another man they stole a tent and its contents, including clothing, papers […]

1949 Whins Camp Outbreak

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November 10, 2016

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1948 didn’t end so well for the residents of the Whins Camp at Blantyreferme. In the same year that the residents of Dechmont Camp had been forcibly removed and sent across to their new homes at Blantyreferme, an outbreak of gastro enteritis that December took the shine off the new accommodation. Housed in the former Army […]