Pictured around the late 1890’s is the exact location of this next story, Railway Cabin number 4 on the Caledonian Railway, Hamilton to Strathaven branch. A wonderful, clear and detailed photo shared by Alex Bowie shows the line looking over to Larkfield. The line splits in two, the mineral line on the right heading towards […]
A snippet from the Hamilton Herald 2nd October 1896, a newspaper describing the Blantyre column news from 127 years ago. Hope you find these jottings interesting. This was the news that week: “We see from the papers that Mr Carnegie has been opening a library at Auchterarder. Could some of our local dignitaries not whisper […]
An amusing Blantyre story was retold in the local newspapers in October 1897. It took place on Wednesday 29th September 1897 (nearly 126 years ago). That afternoon, passengers at Blantyre Station awaiting the arrival of the Glasgow train were “tickled pink” on seeing a hare running along the track in front of the approaching train. […]
There’s a good story from 1898 about a particular Blantyre businessman who was well known for his meanness. When travelling by railway as he often did, he would keep the railway porters at Blantyre busily attending to his luggage, getting them to load the bags on to the train carriage. He would meander, acting indecisively […]
This is the railway bridge crossing over the end of the road at John Street, Blantyre. Pictured fairly recently, this location reminded me on a peculiar incident which happened in 1901, some 122 years ago. About 10 o clock in the evening on Saturday 7th September 1901, a miner named Edward Cornfield (40) met with […]
Next, a story about a railway level crossing which once crossed over Stonefield Road, leading from the railway mineral line, which is today Burnbrae Road. This story took place on Stonefield Road, outside what is now the Scotmid (Landmark) near Larkfield. One day in Summer 1908, a six year old boy, Alexander Lawson was patiently […]
In late October 1909, several residents of Caldervale, (Fin me Oot) were involved in a railway accident whilst out walking. A warning this post contains some upsetting content. The accident occurred at Newton, in Cambuslang Parish. Margaret McKerney or McAllister, aged fifty-one, residing at 34 Caldervale Rows, Blantyre, and Robert McAllister, her husband, along with […]