A fire broke out about 5.30am on the morning of Friday 3rd May 1929 in a two-storey double-block dwelling situated at 104 Morris Crescent, Blantyre, in the centre of the relatively new large housing scheme. The house was occupied by Mr William Hardie, a commercial traveller who was employed by a Glasgow firm. He lived at number […]
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Death of an honest Blantyre man
A serious accident which occurred during a dense fog towards the end of February 1930, at Rutherglen Railway Station, when a large number of passengers were seriously injured, was recalled by many upon the later death on 4th May 1933 of Mr. Donald Macintosh the signalman, who resided at 75 Morris Crescent, Blantyre, after a prolonged […]
Harry Barclay at Morris Crescent
Remembering St Andrew’s Ambulance
I recently received an email where Blantyre Project reader Muir Wasson, kindly scanned and provided some old photos of Blantyre. Muir wrote, “I was brought up in Blantyre from by birth in 1935 until I left in 1957 and have many memories of that time. We lived first in Morris crescent and then in Monteith […]