During February 1931, Mr. Frank Wilson was an unemployed miner, living at 45 Merry’s Rows, Blantyre. On Monday 9th February 1931, Frank and his wife were clearly finding things difficult when the wife ventured across Glasgow Road and the railway to Craighead, to the woodland, intending on gathering some firewood. She headed towards the bing at […]
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Will work for buns
On 23rd March 1945, at the tail end of the Second World War, a Blantyre mother brought her 12 year old son before the School Management Committee to explain why he persisted in playing traunt. The lad alleged he was coaxed by a Blantyre firewood merchant to travel on his cart and help deliver around […]