In 2007, Vandals broke into the grounds of the Craighead School and set fire to their minibus leaving the whole school absolutely devastated. For over a year, the school had no minibus restricting many of the outings that would have otherwise been possible. The idiots who stooped so low as to torch a school bus […]
Stuart McIntosh shared this photo. From 1982, it was taken at High Blantyre Cross from outside Carrigans. The old Church Hall would be just out the photo to the right. A simple photo taken of the memorial, but suddenly now, 38 years later, interesting in its own right.
13 women and 2 men were injured in early 1967 one Friday when a minibus taking workers home from a factory in East Kilbride, collided with a double decker bus at the junction of Bardykes Road and Glasgow Road. Both drivers and 12 passengers from the mini bus and one from the double decker […]
In Hamilton Sheriff Court at the end of June 1925, two bus drivers were prosecuted for alleged reckless driving, exceeding the speed limit, and running abreast —all to the danger the Blantyre public. The incident, with its consequent conviction, gave Sheriff Shennan an opportunity or making some general observations on motor bus competition. The […]
John Boyd was a miner who lived at 177 Glasgow Road in the early part of last Century. In On Saturday 23rd October 1926, his 6 year old son had a narrow escape from death. The boy had been to a baker’s shop, and in crossing to his home just opposite he allowed a bus […]
A photo I shared with Historic Hamilton this week. Chieftain Bus from the 1920’s at the depot (High Blantyre Road). Although the bus is signed for Hamilton, the stops noted on the side windows include Blantyre. On social media. Avril Laurie messaged me saying, “Thanks so much Paul for your post of the chieftains. My […]
Friday 31st January 1936 was a sad day for Blantyre. A four-year-old girl was killed that evening in a road accident on the Glasgow Road, Blantyre. She was little Reta Black, who resided with her grandparents Mr and Mrs John Black at 7 Forrest Street, Blantyre. The girl ran into the street near her home and was instantly killed […]