Continuing the story of Auchinraith Pit Disaster which happened on Saturday 30th August 1930. Continued from Part 9 yesterday. Today we’re again looking at the funerals of the victims and how this affected the community in Blantyre. The four Silver bands played appropriate music and the weird notes of the piper’s lament seemed to lend […]
Jim Cochrane shared this family photo added, “This is my Gran Isa Cochrane or Isabella Andrew Melville. This picture was taken in about 1940 before she was married. She worked as a bus conductress on Glasgow corporation buses or Clipie. When she got married my grandfather and her lived for a while at 6 Watson […]
On 11th April 1938, eighteen years after committing bigamy Mrs. Helen Mackenzie, or Gordon of Summerside Place Edinburgh, was at Hamilton Sheriff Court and was sent to prison for one month. The sixty year old wept bitterly in the dock as she reflected on her crime , eighteen years prior to that sentence. Helen had […]