Now here’s a story, anybody with the surname MURRAY may be interested in. On Saturday 20th November 1897, Mr Neil Murray, a Labourer aged 46 from Blantyre met with a somewhat serious accident on the way home from the pub. He had been out drinking in Stonefield and late that Saturday night into the wee […]
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Fatal Impaling at Stoneymeadow Road
About ten o’clock on Wednesday 19th July 1933, just as the light was dipping, a terrible accident occurred at the junction of Stoneymeadow Road and Dalton, which left one person dead. Richard Dale, residing at 48 Park Street, Cambuslang was running his Blantyre sweetheart back to High Blantyre, when tragedy struck. He was riding a motor […]