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Hugh McNeil’s Tragic Swim

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 […]