Some time ago the late Helen Williams shared this photo with Blantyre Project. Helen told me, “This is my Grandmother Jenny McMurray with Samuel McMurray. They lived at 33, Nursery Place High Blantyre. I was trying to establish who the baby was as I don’t have a date for the picture. The baby may be […]
Two High Blantyre men and a third from outwith Blantyre lost their lives on the evening of Monday 29th August 1938. The Three men were trapped in the cabin of a heavy transport lorry which crashed over Duneaton Bridge (pictured), about a mile south of Abington, Lanarkshire and lay dead in the darkness from 2 […]