A distressing bus fatality occurred on Monday 22nd October 1928 on Glasgow Road where a young lady was killed. The victim was schoolteacher Miss Peggy McLinden (26), daughter of Hugh McLinden a clothier and tailor of Glasgow Road. Peggy had just stepped off the bus coming from Hamilton and when crossing the road had failed […]
Thanks to Neil Scott for sharing this school photo. The year is 1954 / 55 and the school is Calder Street Junior Secondary School, Calder Street, Blantyre. Incredibly, and unusually for school photos the names of the teacher and pupils are noted on it. Do you recognise anybody?
Evelyn Morrison was a Wishaw footballer who played for Falkirk. He finished as the top scorer in the Scottish Football League Division One in the 1928–29 season, scoring 39 goals. This remains the highest single-season total ever recorded for the club. This season attracted much interest from larger clubs, with Evelyn going on to play […]
Thanks to Robert Stewart for providing another excellent school photo, taken in 1929 at High Blantyre Primary School, Hunthill Road. Incredibly, the names of the children are also attached.
On 29th July 1940, a Blantyre school teacher, Quintin Smith, 325 Glasgow Road, Blantyre, was found not guilty in Hamilton J.P. Court of assaulting an 11-year-old pupil at Auchinraith Public School, Blantyre on June 25. The boy, John Cook, in the witness-box, said that along with other boys had been playing football in the school […]