I’m reminded of the saying, “you don’t get if you don’t ask” in this next story from March 1896. The Blantyre Parish Council at met at High Blantyre for their monthly meeting on the first week in March 1896. On the agenda that particular meeting was to discuss the many applications for poor relief. That […]
At twenty-five past eleven on the morning of Monday September 19th June 1876, Burnbank was rocked by an explosion so loud that it was heard beyond Baillieston, Wishaw and Stonehouse. The explosion was caused by dynamite in a builder’s yard in Burnbank, which took the lives of 7 people. One person Mr John McCall, a […]