In April 1980, Spook Erections, the open air market company in Blantyre bizarrely submitted planning application to paint the ends of several council homes with murals. The proposal directed at council homes on Glasgow Road near Hastie’s Farm, was point blankly rejected very quickly by the council. The company insisted that painting the sides of […]
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John Street Gable Collapse
The gable of a Blantyre tenement house collapsed during a fiercesome gale on the morning of Monday 2nd December 1946. Two families ended up being homeless. Mr and Mrs David Nesbit. 4 John Street, Blantyre, were awakened by the howling of the wind round their house, and the battering of the rain against the windows. […]