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 […]
On Wednesday 24th January 1900, an accident occurred in High Blantyre, which saw a miner terribly injured. However, it was not the kind of accident that we commonly know happened to men in such times. Mr. J.W Bathgate was the assistant engineer at Dixon’s Collieries at High Blantyre. On that day, he had finished […]