A little piece of Blantyre news from mid September 1908. On 16th September that year, a local newspaper reported: “The Blantyre street lamps have this week been getting a touch up with dark green paint, but so far there is no sign of the lamps resuming their Winter usefulness. As we have now reached the […]
Robert Stewart recently commented to me, “Did you know that part of the Dandy (the avenue leading from Glasgow Road), starting from the Glasgow Road, had gas lighting installed, I’m not sure how far it extended, but I remember gas lamp posts as far as Thornhill Cottage.” This made me wonder if it was amongst […]