An alarming occurrence at Blantyre took place about one o’clock Tuesday 16th November 1920, when the Craighead colliery bing, which belongs to Messrs William Baird and Co., gave way! Around two thousand tons of sludge and stones cascaded down the Bing and was scattered across the Whistleberry Road. The who incident was a most unusual […]
This next story took place 155 year ago in Blantyre Stores, in the Village, Low Blantyre in the building which is now the Village Bar on Station Road. About two o’clock on Friday 23rd January 1863 three boys from Blantyre works were employed at Blantyre Stores for the day only. James Maxwell, William Maxwell […]
From the book, “Blantyre Glasgow Road – The Real Story” by Paul Veverka (c) 2017 Turner’s Buildings (Central Buildings) One of the most populated buildings ever on Glasgow Road was the former Turner’s Buildings, or as they were also known, Central Buildings. Before we explore this, lets clear up yet ‘ainother incorrectly previously […]
A report from the Hamilton Herald on 26th August 1892 told of a collapse to miner’s homes in Blantyre. “In the early house of Wednesday morning the occupants of houses No. 21, 22, 23, and 24 at Stonefield, were greatly alarmed to hear a loud crackling noise, and immediately afterwards to see the back […]
About one o’clock on the last Sunday afternoon in August 1940, a considerable excitement prevailed among tenants residing at Central Buildings on the Glasgow Road. Word soon spread known that a large portion of the three-story property situated at Logan Street had suddenly collapsed and many tons of bricks, mortar and some wood crashed down into […]
An elderly woman had a narrow escape, six families were marooned, and a funeral was delayed when the outside stone stairway leading to an upper flat at a two-storey Blantyre tenement collapsed on Saturday 6th January 1934. The woman, named Mrs. Meechn, was on her way to the house on the second floor of a […]
Kenneth Pierce of Blantyre recently brought something to my attention. It would appear during the March 2015 rain and snow, the Central pier of Craighead Viaduct suffered a catastrophic collapse. This may come as a surprise to many people as it did to me. Roving photographer Jim Brown volunteered to go down to investigate and […]