Still immersed in Blantyre during the 1890’s, I found the following extracts from the Hamilton Herald Newspaper. A good little summary of what was going on in mid July 1893. “The finishing touch is now being given to the stalk of the new chimney , which rises to 130 foot at the new colliery, near […]
Blantyre “battened down the hatches” on the evening of Thursday 20th December 1900. Just a few days before Christmas, a violent storm rolled in over Central Scotland, one of the worst the county could remember in living memory. The terrible weather consisted of rain and more prominently, extremely high winds, with gale force destructive gusts. […]
On Friday 29th August 1924, a sudden and terrific thunderstorm burst over Blantyre that afternoon. Shortly before two o’clock thunder was heard rolling the distance, and it gradually came nearer. By a quarter past two the elements were in a raging fury, and rain and hail was coming down in torrents, which lasted for […]