Continuing some Blantyre stories from 131 years ago. Long forgotten, but retold here. A most extraordinary scene took place at a wedding which was celebrated in Blantyre on the evening of Friday 3rd November 1893. A wedding was being celebrated in a house in Springwells and despite the rejoicings, a quarrel had arisen between two […]
About ten o’clock on Wednesday 19th July 1933, just as the light was dipping, a terrible accident occurred at the junction of Stoneymeadow Road and Dalton, which left one person dead. Richard Dale, residing at 48 Park Street, Cambuslang was running his Blantyre sweetheart back to High Blantyre, when tragedy struck. He was riding a motor […]