On Friday 7th March 1913, a Blantyre bookmaker, appeared before the Sheriff in the Court in Hamilton. In big trouble, he had been caught gambling illegally in the street and in quite the literal sense had given the police a run for their money! Officers on foot chased him running through Blantyre’s streets and hedgerows […]
With the arrival of Greyhound Racing in 1920’s Blantyre, came the inevitable gambling problems for many people in our town. At Craighead, a new sight was plain clothes officers, acting on behalf of the gambling commission, walking around the racetrack and others locally to see if illegal activity was going on, especially with the […]