The discovery was made in early July 1916 that a considerable quantity of goods had disappeared from the coachhouse at Craighead Estate, Blantyre. Though the boxes and other receptacles in which the articles had been stored were found roped as they bad been left by the caretaker, examination showed that they had been entered, some […]
In December 1925, whilst pushing a rake of empty coal hutches up an incline in the Loanend Colliery, William Dowdles, James Mulvaney, and Thomas Wales were trapped by a runaway train of fully loaded hutches, which came hurtling down on them with sudden force. The Blantyre connection here was William Dowdles, who lived at 6 […]
Isla Arendell (nee McInally) wrote to me with the following message, “Further to your post about ‘Fin me Oot’, I thought you might like to hear about our family connection. My parents John and Nan McInally (nee Murphy) emigrated to the States in 1951. My father grew up on Baird’s Rows and my mother in […]