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Blantyre Folk

1880

Gavin Laird

Taking his Sweethearts down a Blantyre Pit

An unexpected way of showing attentions to the fair was illustrated by a case in the Sheriff Court yesterday. Gavin Laird, Ostler, Splint coal seam, No. 3. Pit, Blantyre Collieries, and residing at Robertson’s Land, Larkfield, was charged with a contravention of the Mines Regulation Act by having on Sunday Last, 14th March, without the consent of the owners agent, Ann O’Neill, Bridget Doyle and Catherine Berry, mill workers, Dixon’s Rows, they being strangers within the meaning of the rules. He pled guilty and was fined by Sheriff Birnie 10s or five days imprisonment.

It appears that, as an act of gallantry Laird had taken the girls below ground to show them the pit.

Ref. Hamilton Advertiser. 20/3/1880. Page 2.

Blantyre Case

Gavin Laird requested us to state that the girls referred to in last week’s issue, were not his sweethearts, as reported.

Ref. Hamilton Advertiser. 27/3/1880. Page 2.

Wilma Bolton. 2005.

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