I’ve been exploring the miners strike of summer 1894 and the lengths people were going to, just to ensure food for their families. As I’ve posted about recently, crime was on the rise and the theft of food was significantly on the rise. Early on Wednesday 8th August 1894, a confectionary shop owned by Mrs […]
Here’s a story of a single woman who pursued money for the ‘upkeep’ of her illegitimate child at Blantyre Works, The Village in 1903. On 13th June 1903 at Hamilton Sheriff Court, Annie Gilmour Dawson of Mid Row, Blantyre raised an action against the father of her newborn child. Annie was already designated as ‘poor’ […]
This website has previously explored Houses 2 to 11 Mid Row, which later became known as Hamilton Place. The other 2 blocks of homes in Mid Row, Blantyre Works Village were numbered from houses 12 to 54. With the exception of numbers 12 and 14, the homes located just off Station Road, were owned […]
This photo was taken in the 1910s or early 1920s. Pictured is the Village Sweet Shop in Mid Row, and in the photo are sisters Miss Margaret Hamilton and her sister Annie. In 1915, Margaret Hamilton was the young proprietor of houses 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 Mid or Middle Row. The shop […]
Hamilton Place was located at the former Blantyre Works Village. Situated on the western side of the quadrangle, it was the northernmost of 3 blocks which formed and was part of Mid or Middle Row. The addresses for these properties throughout the 19th Century was always referred to mid Row owned by the Monteith family […]
Continuing our look at brand new “old Blantyre photos”. This time a private photo, so exclusively again on Blantyre Project, for the first time online, one of the only known two photos of Mid or Middle Row at Blantyre Works. Mid Row – or Middle Row was two blocks of single storey homes and one at […]
Jean Pearson emailed me recently, commenting, “My Grandfather died in Blantyre on the 20th of August 1906. His Name was George William Elliot. He lived at 11 Waterloo Row Blantyre and was a coal Miner. I am trying to find an inquest report from the newspaper of that period. I would appreciate any help you […]