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Brid Graney emailed to say, “Hello. I recently found out that my great grandfather from Ireland worked in Blantyre from 1898 and died in 1908. He was buried in St. Peter’s Dalbeth. My family and I are planning a visit to the cemetery in June and would like to make a short visit to Blantyre. […]
Mr. John. L Clifford was born in 1896, proprietor and printer of the former 20th Century Blantyre ‘Gazette’ newspaper. Not to be confused like others have done, with his father and son of the same name. He was the son of John Clifford (b1867), who started the family owned printing business. The business was based […]
Bellshill was the scene of a serious motor accident on Saturday 9th July 1932, where a young girl of two and half years was seriously injured and sadly later died, with several other people injured. The dead girl was Kathleen Clifford, of 40 Station Road, Blantyre the daughter of the man who would form the […]
In 1844 a Blantyre man, Samuel Clifford aged 24, underestimated the Winter weather and sadly was found dead on the outskirts of the village, succumbed to hypothermia. Likely caught out whilst walking home in December that year wearing no overcoat and only a thin shirt and trousers. No more details are known about the accidental […]