I recently posted about the Dye Works Fire in 1859 which burned down the yarn ‘drying out’ factory at the Madder Mill, Blantyre Works on the Clyde. In September that year there was a subsequent, extensive sale of the damage cotton yarn, as shown here in this advert. P Burn & Co were instructed to […]
<<< Back to Schools Rev Stevenson during the 1700s left us all a marvelous account of education in Blantyre during 1785. He wrote in the Statistical account for that year, “There is only one school in the Parish. The schoolmaster’s salary is about £6, but he has neither house nor garden belonging to the office. […]