A warning that this story contains upsetting content relating to child death. On Saturday 22nd April 1905, police revealed that they had detained Blantyre woman Jeannie Lyon on suspicion she had murdered her newborn baby. Jeannie was a domestic servant and had given birth on Wednesday 19th April that year. However, when the baby disappeared, […]
This next story is from 1908, but before anybody says anything, the photo is much later from 1977 for illustration only, showing Broompark Road at Larkfield in the exact spot of where this happened. On Saturday 22nd August 1908, a miner Mr William Devlin had been enjoying a few drinks in Grace MacCallum’s Pub at […]
On Friday 26th August 1836, two males who were employed at Blantyre to cart some stones and rubbish ended up in a quarrel. The row was over some trifling matter relating to the performance of the work, which resulted in one of them, named Cameron picking up a heavy stone and with it, struck […]
One fine Wednesday evening in 1849 about seven o’ clock in the evening, a young man named Dick, the son of a Cambuslang farmer was out airing a pony on the Stoneymeadow Toll Road, which leads down into Blantyre. He was suddenly aware of another man, dressed in labourer atire carrying a gun, then shortly […]