From the heavily researched illustrated book, “Blantyre Glasgow Road – The Real Story” by Paul Veverka (c) 2017 Moving again northwestwards, further into Springwell, we next arrive at the former Smellie’s Land or Smellie’s Buildings (pronounced ‘smiley’), a surname well known throughout Lanarkshire. Smellie’s Buildings at Springwell should not be confused […]
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Did not want to go home
The remarkable story was told in Hamilton J.P, Court on Tuesday 1st November 1927, when two young men from Shotts and a 16-year-old girl from Edinburgh admitted having been found sleeping rough in hay shed of farm near Blantyre. They were found there at two o’clock on the Monday morning. The lads stated that they […]