In February 1893, a story about the Blantyre railway station buildings being burgled appeared in local newspapers. Saying, “Another of those burglaries which have been so frequent of late at Caledonian railway stations occurred at Blantyre early yesterday morning. The booking office on the north side was entered, and 2s in money, along with the […]
On the evening of Saturday 4th August 1894, a young man residing in Hamilton was walking along the Udston Road between Burnbank and High Blantyre was attacked by a number of men accompanied by two women. As the last light faded, amongst the hedgerows in a rural setting, the man was knocked down in an […]
Time and time again I find the 1920’s an era of great unemployment for Blantyre and a time when hardships drove men (and women) to do things that would normally be grossly out of character. One such story is that of Alexander Walker Hunter, whom, in 1925 was 31 years old, a married man who […]
In February 1932, American immigrant, William Reid had only been in Scotland for 4 weeks, when he was imprisoned for 1 year for faking cheques. Starting out his new life in the worst possible away his methods were cunning in obtaining £31 from 2 banks in Larkhall and Blantyre by means of faked documents and […]