About 6.30pm on the evening of Sunday 1st August 1915, a youth from Dixon’s Rows in Blantyre met with a tragic ending. Hugh McNeil (17) was a machineman and lived at 26 Dixon’s Street on Dixon’s Rows, (not far from where Priory Street is now). That summers evening, he decided to go swimming in the […]
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Three years held against his will
This is such an important piece of local history that deserves to be told and noted. Please do read this, especially the end. In 1945 a Blantyre soldier came home after being imprisoned against his will in a prisoner of war camp for 1,105 days and nights. I warn you that you may not enjoy […]