Looking at some people stories today. In Summer 1967, Mr Gerry McCann, formerly of Blantyre came back home from New York for the first time in 40 years to visit family and friends. A Blantyre boy he was educated at St Josephs. He left school to work as a woodflour miller at Walker’s Mill at […]
On the evening of Thursday 23rd March 1933, fire broke out at Blantyre Mills. Three-Storey Building was gutted about ten o’clock that night resulting in Cambuslang Fire Brigade being summoned to a fire in wood-dust mill on the bank of the River Clyde in Old Blantyre village. The mill was owned by Messrs Gideon Clark […]
A drowning tragedy occurred in the afternoon of Tuesday 26th May 1937 in the “lade”at the River Clyde near the wood-flour mill at Low Blantyre. The mill belonged to Messrs Gideon Walker & Sons. The turbine engine at the mills had been stopped to allow repairs to be made, and the sluice gates of the lade […]