How strange it would have been to live in that “crossover” time where horses and carts were on the roads, but also, emerging were also mechanised vehicles and cars. A good example would have been in 1917, during WW1 when Donald McLean was driving his cart back from Cambuslang. He was stopped by authorities one […]
About five o’clock on Friday morning of 2nd October 1931 the lamp cabin at the Priory Colliery, Blantyre, belonging to William Baird & Co Ltd., was gutted by fire and the lampman, John Doran, who resides at 5 John Street, Blantyre, was removed to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, suffering from serious burning injuries. On inquiry […]