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1927 Miner Whose Mind Wandered

January 19, 2017

Archibald Russell, miner, 39 Glasgow Springwells, Blantyre, was before Sheriff Anderson at the Falkirk Police Court on Monday 27th June 1927, charged with having, on 25th in a shop in Union Road, Camelon, stealing a pair of shoes. Archibald pleaded guilty, appeared genuinely remorseful and said he had no intention of taking the shoes, but […]

Stonefield Allotments

paulveverka

November 3, 2014

Blantyre Places

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I was interested to see “Allotments” noted at the side of Stonefield Road on the 1936 map. The plots were located in two large fields behind Dixons’s Rows, the miners homes. Hemmed in by the Gasworks on Stonefield Road (on the later Letham’s Garage site). The worked gardens were not shown on earlier maps and […]