A distressing bus fatality occurred on Monday 22nd October 1928 on Glasgow Road where a young lady was killed. The victim was schoolteacher Miss Peggy McLinden (26), daughter of Hugh McLinden a clothier and tailor of Glasgow Road. Peggy had just stepped off the bus coming from Hamilton and when crossing the road had failed […]
Dave Barry contacted me in October 2015, saying, “Dear Paul, Although not a native of Blantyre, I’ve unearthed some family history from the area, and have written the attached brief summary. While researching my great-grandfather, a grocer in Holytown who died aged 32, ruined by the crash of the City of Glasgow Bank in 1878, […]