An injured solider in WW1 found himself in Hamilton Sheriff Court at the end of July 1915 charged with the assault of a neighbour. An assault which resulted in the loss of an eye. John Hillhouse, was a Blantyre man who lived at former Craig Row, Auchentibber. One evening on 3rd July, upon hearing bad […]
On Wednesday 24th January 1900, an accident occurred in High Blantyre, which saw a miner terribly injured. However, it was not the kind of accident that we commonly know happened to men in such times. Mr. J.W Bathgate was the assistant engineer at Dixon’s Collieries at High Blantyre. On that day, he had finished […]