I like this little story. Thomas Lennox (25), unemployed miner, residing in Beckford Street, Hamilton, was sent to prison for 21 days Sheriff Brown at Hamilton, when he admitted breaking into a public-house at 213 and 215 Glasgow Road, Burnbank on the outskirts of Blantyre, on December 19th 1935, and stealing three bottles of whisky […]
According to the Mitchell Library, in 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie retreated with his downhearted army stopping briefly in Blantyre. This seems to be confirmed by the “Annals of Blantyre 1883” book which records an anecdote from a local resident, apparently passed this story from his family. It is written in the historical document, the following […]