On Sunday 30th April 1967, a single decker old bus which had been used as a workman’s bothy burned down. The bus had doubled as a work hut and was being used by the many men employed in removing the Priory Bing at the former Priory Colliery, Low Blantyre. It is unknown how the blaze […]
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1937 Car Accident Blaze
Thomas Watson (45), Mrs Watson, and Kenneth Sinclair—all from Priestfield Farm, High Blantyre, Lanarkshire received serious injuries at Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire on 23rd June 1937, when the saloon car driven by Watson skidded on a steep hill and crashed into a bus with an excursion party from Stirling. Petrol from the damaged vehicles ran down the […]