A story next from 1913, reminding everybody of the dangers of Blantyre Craig, the precipice overlooking the River Clyde which Blantyre Priory ruins rest on. In October 1913, a Colonel Ritchie of the Army Medical Corps was back in Scotland recuperating from an injury in India. Staying at Helensburgh, one weekend, he decided to visit […]
Early on the morning of Tuesday 26th February 1918, a tragic and distressing accident occurred in the Saw Dust Mill in the Village, Blantyre. A young girl who was employed there, named Euphemia Ward, had occasion during her working day, to pass by the end of a deep shaft which had a hammer like mechanism […]
A distressing bus fatality occurred on Monday 22nd October 1928 on Glasgow Road where a young lady was killed. The victim was schoolteacher Miss Peggy McLinden (26), daughter of Hugh McLinden a clothier and tailor of Glasgow Road. Peggy had just stepped off the bus coming from Hamilton and when crossing the road had failed […]
On Wednesday 8th August 1934, Mary Brodie Paterson, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr A. Paterson, of 73 Broompark Road, High Blantyre, was fatally injured when the cycle she was riding was involved in a collision with a motor cycle ridden by a young man. I recall quite some time ago being told about this, and […]
Shortly after five o’clock on Friday 7th January 1938, a fatality occurred on Glasgow road at Blantyre, when Joseph Meechan (7), residing with his grandparents, Mr and Mrs John Meechan, 6 Alpine Street, Blantyre, was instantly killed. The boy darted across the road, and within 50 yards of his home was knocked down by a […]
A rather sad story for you now. In July 2014, Blantyre man Robert Stewart emailed me a list of people who were buried in unmarked graves in High Blantyre Cemetery. In all cases, no names were known. Robert, being knowledgeable in Blantyre’s Cemeteries told me that between 1875 and 1914, a total of eleven unknown […]
During one Tuesday evening in Blantyre in 1865, a young man of twenty two years, named Edward Sprint met his fate. A moulder, residing at Uddingston, along with some fellow workmen had been indulging rather freely in liquor in a public house in Blantyre. At eleven o’clock at night they left and proceeded to a […]