On the 8th September 1895, a group of people from High Blantyre set off to nearby Bellsfield Farm with a deliberate intention on stealing some food. The farm belonged to John Craig who discovered the group in one of his crop fields. John Smith Labourer of Springfield, Walter Clark of Aitkenhead’s Land, Edward Tonner and […]
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Diary of Tam Turnip
Writing under the name of Tam Turnip, a Blantyre man published his diary in the Fifeshire Advertiser in 1913 remembering back to the 1850s and 60s. An extract written in old Scots tongue follows: “19th March, 1913. Editor, — I need hardly tell ye that it’s a hunner years this very day since David Livingstone […]


