Wednesday 18th July 1917 saw a somewhat serious accident befall upon Mr Robert Provan (62). As he worked in gathering hay at Craighead Farm, he slipped and fell heavily into a hay fork, which had only been sharpened that morning! One of the fork prongs pierced his windpipe and another, his neck below the left […]
John Forrest Ramsay, a young London student appeared before Sheriff McDonald and a jury at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday 13th September 1929, charged with having driven a motor-cycle on the High Blantyre Road, Burnbank, on 2nd and 3rd July 1928 in a reckless and culpable manner, and at an excessive speed, whereby knocking down William McCreadie,a […]