On the evening of Sunday 21st May 1893, some excitement took place on the outskirts of Springwell at the Low Blantyre Road (Glasgow Road). At Greenfield, Patrick O Brien, an 8 year old who lived with his father nearby, was playing on the bridge parapet at the side of the road. The bridge was beside […]
A wee snippet of Blantyre news from 131 years ago. On the afternoon of 22nd August 1893, an accident occurred in Church Street, which left a man injured. James Lyon, a stonemason employed at Orchardhead, High Blantyre had a narrow escape. He had been in the act of building a chimney on a new house […]
Next up, the little known story of how a man died following a tragic accident inside St Joseph’s Church in 1921. In June 1921, the British and Foreign Glass Company of Glasgow were contracted by the RC Church on Glasgow Road to undertake some urgent repairs to the large windows facing out on to the […]
On Saturday 21st June 1817 an open air stage coach travelling between Glasgow to Hamilton was involved in a fatal accident on top of the Priory Bridge at Blantyre. As the coach approached the bridge, an oncoming horse and cart startled the horses pulling the coach, and the passengers on top of the coach were alarmed […]
Springtime 1940 was remembered by the Miners of Bardykes Colliery as being one that should have been different. Appalling safety lapses resulted in the deaths of two men just weeks apart and instigated inquiries into the safety of the pit. As war raged on in Europe, many of the men employed in the mines were […]