In 1892, residents complained about a lack of privacy while sending telegraph messages at the Post Office on Glasgow Road, Blantyre. Miss Walker, the sub postmistress, moved the telegraph machine to a back room for privacy. However, postmen sorting letters nearby could see incoming messages, prompting public outcry and letters to the Hamilton Advertiser.
By midday on Monday 22nd October 1877, news of the colliery disaster in Blantyre was travelling rapidly around Britain. Even in those times of slower, more basic communication, the established telegram network was being worked frantically as newspapers all over the UK picked up the breaking tragedy. On Monday afternoon the Gloucester Citizen rushed to […]
The electric telegraph was a system that permitted communication via electrical signals. The first commercial systems using Morse code but later were able to transmit words. It meant quick transmittal back and forth of news as it happened, without having to wait for messengers to convey it by foot or vehicle. In 1859, the telegraph […]
To live to you’re hundred is a remarkable achievement for anybody these days, but to do it in a previous era, where quality of life was not as it is today, is astounding. One such Blantyre person lived to 100 years old. Ms Templeton (wife of the Blantyre Blacksmith John Templeton) was born on the […]