By the end of 1915, the initial earlier waves of support from men enlisting for WW1 active service had started to fall away slightly. The horrors of battles being reported back to Britain and realisation of so many deaths and that this was going to take longer than thought, meant fewer men were signing up. […]
How relieved some British Troops must have been in December 1916 to be told they were being given leave to go back home for a short time. War was not going well, and whilst most troops suffered those cold, terrible conditions in the trenches, others were most fortunate to arrive back in Britain for the […]
One day at the end of February 1917, passenger got on the tram at Cambuslang and it set off heading to Blantyre. But this was to be an eventful short trip! The tram stopped and started erratically, throwing the passengers left and right, almost continuously right into Blantyre. By the West End, somebody had investigated […]
A sad accident took place in Blantyre on the afternoon of Saturday 14th July 1917. Elizabeth Burns, aged 5 and a half, daughter of Edward Burns stayed with her Aunt, Mrs Dorrington at 201 Glasgow Road. The little girl had been crossing the Glasgow Road behind the Number 4 tram car (pictured a decade earlier) […]
A miner named Andrew Cosh of 4 Cross Row, Low Blantyre, was sharply fined at Hamilton Burgh Police Court in March 1920 for a brutal and unprovoked attack on a tramcar conductress. According the statement of the Fiscal, the girl had been busily engaged in collecting her fares in a crowded tramcar, when Andrew, most […]
Even in the vilest weather passengers on buses can travel between Cambuslang and Blantyre in comparative comfort with little chance of catching pneumonia, but for passengers 100 years ago, it was a very different case! For people especially in Winter it was a miserable experience being on a busy tram ‘caur’. During mid day […]
Daniel Crane (68), a Blantyre miner lived on Glasgow Road during the 1920’s. On Saturday 11th August 1924, that summer evening he had been enjoying some well earned time off work, fishing at Crawford with friends. As light faded, he boarded a tramcar at Motherwell Cross ready to head home to Blantyre but around 10pm […]