Tag: eviction

Evicted, 1895

On Tuesday 9th April 1895, there was a bit of a scene at the former miners’ homes at Dixons Rows, Stonefield, Blantyre. Making the newspapers was a story about a miner residing at those houses who was forcibly evicted. At the insistence of Coalmasters William Dixon Ltd, (who owned the houses), this particular miner had […]