Winter blues were ushered away as a grand athletic tournament took place in Blantyre during January 1894. In an era before radio, TV or film entertainment, local people took great delight in meeting and making their own entertainment. A large audience descended upon the Masonic Hall at Stonefield on the evening of Monday 15th January […]
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Yankee’s Fall, 1904
This story perhaps reflects how times have changed. Doctors rushed to a house in Springwell on the last Sunday afternoon of October 1904, upon hearing of a peculiar accident. Two men had been ‘amusing’ themselves in the sport of wrestling, a private bout with no observers to settle a score. Choosing the house of one […]


