“Mr. Andrew Edgar a miner of 67 Auchenraith Road, Blantyre, was convicted on evidence, at Hamilton J.P. Court on Saturday 19th September 1931 of stealing, in concert with others unknown, one ton of coals from a mineral train at Strathaven Junction, on the L.M.S. Railway line between Blantyre and High Blantyre. The Justices found the charge […]
Thefts from a Blantyre doctor’s house were described at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday 6th June 1932 when John James Devlin was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for having broken into Priory House, Thornhill Avenue, Blantyre, and stolen a coat, gloves, a clock, and bag containing surgical instruments, poisons, and dressings. The Procurator-Fiscal (Mr […]
Sentence of 30 days imprisonment was imposed on William Sommerville Ritchie, a young unemployed farm servant, who appeared in custody before Sheriff Brown Hamilton Sheriff Court on Boxing Day 1933. He had pleaded guilty to 2 charges of breaking into a shed situated in Barnhill Nursery on Hunthill Road, on December 25th and opening two lockfast […]
During the 1930’s, many of the lads attending the Unemployed School at Flemington cycled to the School each morning. Some travelled many miles and they had been in the habit of leaving their cycles in the garage near the school. It seems incredibly mean to think that lads who were workless should have their cycles […]
I’ve recently posted about the discovery of the Priory Pit Explosive magazine store, near the Playing fields woodland, Low Blantyre. There’s a little story from 1921 about these dynamite magazine stores being broken into. On Friday 18th November 1921 considerable uneasiness prevailed in Blantyre relating to Police raids in the town in connection to break […]
I was saddened to learn that not all Blantyre people acted with good character after the mining disaster of October 1877. Mr Neil Douglas observed one of those unscrupulous individuals, when in the days after the pit tragedy in High Blantyre Mr Douglas, the colliery cashier has seen one of the bodies brought into the […]
In January 1957, a Burnbank man was jailed for 3 years after admitting stealing explosives from Dixon’s Collieries. Charles Tallis, a 44 year old unemployed labourer of Gordon Terrace, Burnbank was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday 4th January 1957 for his part in breaking into a National Coal Board explosives store […]