The Clyde Row was a row of eighteen one bedroomed small homes on the Sydes Brae near Auchentibber. They were located just above Dickson’s old place, (where the present occupier sold plants till recently). The homes belonged to ironstone miners of the area and their families and opened out on to the Sydes Brae itself. […]
Life at the turn of the new Century in 1900 was not pleasant for Glasgow man John Thomson. The next few years would see him and his family in a downward spiral of bad luck, misfortune and tragedy. In June 1901, his misfortune started when he became unemployed from his job as a Stickworker. The impact […]
Alex Rochead has recently restored this old photo of Park Street (formerly thought incorrectly by J Cornfield as being Hall Street), Dixon’s Rows, Blantyre. The restoration sees the best quality yet of these Miners homes. When Alex emailed me it, I took some time to have a real good look at this photo. Dixons’s Rows were built in […]