In June 1910, a sensational affair was reported to the Cambuslang police though this story happened on the border with Blantyre. A man named Henry Kelly (28) visited his parents at 71 Main Street, Cambuslang. As he missed the last Lanarkshire tramcar at Cambuslang for Hamilton, he started to walk back towards Blantyre. He reached […]
In Summer 1967, police were dismayed to be called to a robbery in Glasgow Road….on premises not for the first time! The property was Tyler and Marshalls Ltd Boot shop at 118 Glasgow Road. Situated on the north side at a junction, the shopkeeper opened up to discover the shop had been robbed. However, there […]
I recently uncovered this bizarre and remarkable story of a Blantyre tram being “subject to a heist”. Late on Saturday 9th April 1927, around 11.15pm, the last tramcar of the evening from Cambuslang was proceeding to the Power Station at Hamilton Road, Motherwell. To do this, it had to go through Blantyre as usual. Being so […]
A Blantyre man was sent to prison for three months, with hard labour in Tower Bridge Police Court on Saturday 16th April 1927, following a remarkable incident. John Cunningham, (30) of 47 Tenison Street, Lambeth, and later of 27 Central Buildings, Blantyre, was charged on remand with stealing £80 (about £4,500 in todays money) […]