Tag: flies

Flies Swarm at Hunthill Road

During the Summer of 1947, the warm weather brought an unwelcome visitor to Blantyre. Swarms of flies descended upon houses all along Hunthill Road bordering on to the Calder. The tenants blamed a refuse coup which was situated immediately behind the houses on the high ground overlooking the River Calder. During Wartime years in 1943, […]