High Blantyre is the location of today’s article. Another comparison of old and new. This is Priestfield Street junction with Main Street (directly across from the entrance to the park). The McLean Brothers are lined up with their workers and carts ready to start their deliveries of aerated water all over Blantyre. Their business was […]
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Desecration of Parish Churchyard
Back now to a favourite subject of mine, the Parish Churchyard at Kirkton. I’ve been looking into events which caused a controversy way back in 1892. Back in that decade was a time before Douglas Street had been named. Actually , then it was called Priestfield Street. (Neil Douglas, the colliery cashier at Dixon’s was likely […]