An eight-ton steam waggon, left unattended at Blantyre railway station on Monday 14th October 1929, just one week after the Livingstone Centre opened caused considerable alarm when it ran amock in the Village. It all started, when it is alleged, by two boys who tampered with the oil tanker and it ran backwards across the […]
Blue-eyed Jessie McCulloch McCutcheon returned to her comfortable Blantyre home in June 1930, after being missing for 10 days. The 16-year-old girl had been employed at an Ayrshire farm when she vanished, and her mother had made many anxious inquiries, though these proved fruitless. When the family was reunited, Jessie was once more happy by the side of […]
Six men had narrow escapes from serious injury on Tuesday 8th September 1936 in Bardykes Colliery Blantyre, when they were caught by a race of loaded runaway hutches on the main hutch road. Three escaped by entering a manhole but the others were caught when attempting to enter another manhole. The injured men were John Martin […]