In June 2016, Norbert McEwan wrote to me saying, “Two distant relatives of mine…..James and Francis Cosgrove are listed amongst the dead in the terrible 1877 Blantyre disaster. Their sister was my grandmother ( Margaret Cosgrove) on my own dad’s side. I am trying to find out more detail about the family…..in particulat about my […]
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 […]
A terrible storm blew into Blantyre on the night of Thursday 20th December 1900. As residents battened down the hatches and prepared for the first Christmas of the New Century, the wind howled around the town damaging many of Blantyre’s old buildings. This included a plate glass window in the grocers shop at Burnbank, which […]