Geradline Carrigan Burns kindly shared this photo she took in 1985 at Kirkton Cross. Pictured is Carrigans Public House, complete with the original door at the front corner. (now a window). Geradline told me that the building had been suffering badly from subsidence, much the same as many of the adjacent homes had been […]
It may come as a surprise that the name Carrigans was just as well known in 1920’s Blantyre as it is today. However, for different reasons. On Saturday 27th June 1927, a well-known figure in the commercial life of Blantyre, Mr Thomas Carrigan, retired from the position of manager of Stonefield Independent Co-Operative Society, Blantyre, […]