Mary Jane Thomson was a brass picker who used to live at Dixon’s Rows, Blantyre. In the middle of March 1907, she found herself in Hamilton Sheriff Court, charged with stealing a pair of ladies shoes from the Stonefield Masonic Hall. Her excuse was that on 1st March that year, when she attended a dance […]
Going back 100 years with this photo of the General’s Bridge on Stoneymeadow Road, High Blantyre. Not quite as impressive as the Gothic arch below but a charming photo nonetheless. It was colourised to make a postcard at the time. The bridge spans the Rotten Calder River with Crossbasket Estate on the right hand side. […]