Now here’s a strange story from 163 years ago taken from the Hamilton Advertiser on 14th September 1861. Thanks to Gordon Cook for sharing. “FOOLISH FROLICS. — On Tuesday last, while a number of miners and others were wiling away an hour by the “roaring fires” of our local smithy, the conversation, as frequently happens under such […]
The ‘Westend’ is a current 2 storey stone tenement building located at the eastern corner of the junction of Glasgow Road and Bardykes Road. When looking at it historically, it should not be confused with ‘Westend House’ in Auchinraith, High Blantyre. The ‘Westend’ name in modern times tends to refer to the Public Bar at […]
Pictured between 1900 and 1903 are 2 little boys playing at Shuttle Row, Blantyre Village Works. They look to be shaking hands and clearly having some fun. Behind them on the right is the 2 storey part of the building now roughcast and used as offices. To put this in a modern context, the […]
As I’ve been pouring over Blantyre census information these last few years, I’ve started to get an eye for patterns. Perhaps a trend here or there, familiar names and bookmarking interesting things to look at. One such thing has turned out to be quite the scandal, which I’ll tell here as best as I […]