I don’t have a lot of notes on this Blantyre based company so hopefully readers can help. Laurence Scott Ltd were an electrical engineering company based at Blantyre Industrial Estate who specialised in the manufacturing of all kinds of electric fans. In May 1977, they had employed a dozen extra workers for incoming orders which […]
Executex Clothing factory was formerly located in the 1970’s at the old Hector Powes unit at High Blantyre Industrial Estate. It specialised in the manufacture of outer clothing, as illustrated. Incorporated on 12th April 1951, the business was English based and is now dissolved. During the 1970’s the firm’s Social Club held fundraising events for […]
During the first week of October 1978, there were threats to form “human barricades” across the new section of the A725 East Kilbride Expressway at the Auchinraith Junction. That part of the expressway was due to open from Crossbasket down to Auchinraith on Tuesday 10th October 1978 and some nearby residents in Springwell were NOT […]