To September 1977 next. Mums from Springwells, campaigning for a lollipop man on Auchinraith Road, blocked traffic by forming a “human wall” on the first Monday morning of that month. The very next day however, a child was knocked down and badly hurt at the very scene of the demonstration. Concern then turned to anger […]
January 1977 next. Blantyre’s young mums turned on the style in a fashion show in the town’s Elizabeth Scott Community Centre on the last Friday of that month. The show was organised by the centre’s pre-school playgroup committee and members took a hand in the modelling and “back-stage” work presenting the show to raise cash […]