A row erupted between neighbours at the end of Victoria Street in early 1980. Mr William Prentice, a coal merchant at 18 Victoria Street called the police 9 times in a short period of time when midnight revellers from nearby Hastie’s Farm disturbed his peace. People leaving the popular nightspot, regularly made noise and […]
Thanks to Helen Williams for this photo. Pictured in the late 1950’s or possibly early 1960’s are coalmen of Blantyre. Pictured is Mr Prentice. Davie Cook is second from the left (who had one arm), and Jackie Turner far right. Other names associates with coal deliveries in Blantyre are Baillie, Barclay, Clark, Devanney, Downie, Dunn, Kelly, McCabe, McDougal, Prentice and Sneddon. Even in the 1970s, some […]
There is a book Inscription which suggests David Livingstone had a broken Romance before meeting and marrying his wife. A faded little book of verses placed on exhibition at the David Livingstone Memorial, Blantyre n 1936, brought to light what is thought to have been a broken or previous romance of the great missionary. The […]