News report about moving away from burning coal in Blantyre’s council homes. “The West End of Blantyre is to go Smokeless on 1st October next year (1973). This was decided by Lanark County Council last week after hearing information from the County Sanitary Inspector along with an estimate of the cost involved. The order will […]
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New Fangled Electric
Electricity started to replace gas street lamps in the 1920’s throughout Blantyre. However, it wasn’t without it’s problems. On Saturday 28th January 1922, in the middle of Winter and long dark nights, inconvenience was caused to Blantyre residents through the failure of electric street lights. We take street lighting for granted these days and outages […]