A little extract from Jimmy Cornfields ‘flitting’ story where a cairt is taken around some streets in Blantyre as a family move home. The map is 1910, but the story is a couple of decades later. Jimmy wrote, “The cairt went up Dixon Street, turned right intae Stonefield Road, passin’ Jock Miller’s Piggery, Murdoch’s Pub, […]
Continuing more previously unseen photos online. This fantastic picture of Robertsons Ginger ‘cairt’ has Blantyre man Peter McDonald standing beside it. His great grandson, Johnny Gilluley shared the picture. The cart actually looks quite new, well certainly the wheels do and I suspect this is what the photograph was showing off. The words “Springwell […]