Attached is David Livingstone’s birth certificate which can be found with a simple search on various ancestry websites. Perhaps however, more uncommon is the will of David Livingstone eg. records of his financial estate upon death. What would it reveal? Was David Livingstone a wealthy man? It’s something you don’t often read about. The will […]
Residents were shocked, frightened and alarmed to discover the body of a man in bushes on Station Road on Sunday 5th March 1978. Rumours spread fast of suspicions of foul play when the body of 51 year old Thomas Hilary was discovered on waste ground near the Village Bar. An injury to the man’s […]
“On Wednesday 28th February, the body of a man about 60 years, and apparently a tramp, was found lying at the Greenhall brickwork near High Blantyre. On the body were two pawn tickets bearing the name John Chalmers, for articles pledged in Wishaw and Motherwell. It has transpired that the man had told some people […]
On Monday 18th September 1939, demolition work commenced to start knocking down some of the older tenements in Alpine Street, located just off Glasgow Road. (Alpine Street doesn’t exist anymore, but it was located approximately where the corner of modern John Street is today, more to the side of the Sports Centre.) William Joseph Maxwell […]
On Friday 10th November 1939, forty seven year old Alexander McFarlane was killed at Blantyre’s Priory Bridge. The man who resided at 21 Craig Street had been walking home and was killed outright when run down by a stray motor car. The scene was at the old Priory Bridge crossing the River Calder from Blantyre […]