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DIRECTORY
BIGGAR
LANARKSHIRE
TAILORS.
Marked thus * are also Clothier:-.
♦Barclay George, Cultcr
♦Blair James, Biggar
Callan John, Symington
Copeland Thomas, Culter
*Dickson Adam R. Bisrgar
*B*ickson Robert M. Biggar
*Gibson Robert, Biggar
*Gladstonc & Co. Biggar
♦Hatland Brothers, Biggar
*Hislop Robert, Biggar
*Johuston Robert & Co. Biggar
Marchbank John, Bronghton
*Moffat Menzies, Biggar
"â– 'Murray Robert, Biggar
'Pillans George, Biggar
Robertson William, Symington
*Tweedie James, Biggar
Wilson James, Thankerton
TIMBER DEALERS &
OWNERS.
Darling James, Thankerton
Plen derleith John, Biggar
WRIGHTS & CARPENTERS.
Alston William, Roberton
Black Adam, Biggar
Black James (& millwright), Biggar
Black John, Lamington
Brown Thomas, Biggar
Dickson David, Culter
Galloway William, Thankerton
Grieve Thomas, Brougliton
Henderson Archibald, Brougliton
Jamieson Alexander, Wiston Mains
Lang James & William, Symington
Pillans William, Biggar
Plenderleith John, Symington
Proudfoot William, Skirling
Tweedie George, Biggar
White William, Lamington
Wilson George, Biggar
WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS.
Hislop William, Biggar
Mitchell Daniel, Biggar
MISCELLANEOUS.
Adams James, hairdresser & fishing tackle
maker, Bk'gar
Ballantine Robert, ham carer, Biggar
Brown John, dealer in horses, fliggar
Brunton Walter, jun. accountant, National
Bank of Scotland, Biggar [Brougliton
Bryden Adam, ham curer, Rachan Mill,
Campbell Archibald, master of the Board
School, & clerk to the School Board, Lam-
ington
Carruthcrs William, clngger, Biggar
Core Wm. registrar, inspector of poor, &
session clerk, Wiston
Dickson George, schoolmaster, inspector of
poor & registrar, Covington
Gibson John, potato merchant, Biggar
Glen Robert, sub-distributor of stamps, &
post master, St. John st
Gourley & Love, photographers, Biggar
Graham James, cabinet maker, Biggar
Grieve Thomas, session clerk, Broughton
Hadden John, veterinary surgeon, Biggar
Hamilton Thomas, inspector of poor, and
registrar of births, deaths & marriages, &
clerk to the School Board, Symington
Henderson Archibald, inspector of poor and
registrar for Kilbncho, Broughton & Glen-
holm (united), & heritors' clerk, Broughton
Lane Edward, drill sergeant, Biggar
Lindsay Thomas, station master, Biggar
M 1 Go wan Alexander, registrar of births,
deaths and marriages, inspector of poor,
session clerk & collector^ clerk & treasurer
to the School Board, Culter
Moncrieff David S. inspector of poor and
registrar of births, deaths & marriages &
cleik & treasurer to School Board, Skirling
Morrison James, master ofWest Board School
& session clerk, Biggar
Ramsay George, manager, gas works, Biggar
Ruthven William, basket & sieve maker,
Biggar
Small Andrew, registrar of births, deaths &
marriages for Biggar Parish, Biggar
Spence Edward, clerk to the School Board,
Biggar
Thomson David, collector of burgh rates,
Royal Bank, Biggar
Watson Christopher, collector of rates, in-
spector of poor, & session clerk & registrar,
Lamiugton
SCHOOL BOARDS.
Biggar.
Chairman — Rev. John ScoU
Clerk— Edward Spence
Culter.
Chairman — Robert Paterson of Birthwood
Cleric t£ Treasurer — Alexander M'Gowau
Covington and Thankerton.
Chairman— Sir W. C. Anstruther, Bart.
Clerk— Rev. James Hoggan
KlLBUCHO, BROUGHTON, & GLENHOLM.
Chairman— James Tweedie
Clerk— Thomas Grieve
Skirling.
Chairman— Sir William H. G. Carmichael,
Bart.
Clerk— David S. Moucrioff
Symington.
Clerk — Thomas Hamilton
Wandell & Lamington.
Chairman — Lord Lamington
Clerk — Archibald Campbell
Public Buildings, Offices, &c.
PLACES OF WORSHIP
and their ministers.
Established Churches: —
Biggar— Rev. William Grant Duncan
Brougliton— Rev. Alexander T. Cosens
Covington — Rev. James Hoggan
Culter — Rev. John Anderson
Skirling — Rev. Matthew Armstrong
Symington — Rev. John Alexander
Wandell & Lamington — Rev. Robert Rankin
Wiston — Rev. Henry L. Dick
Episcopal Church, Lamington
Free Churches :—
Broughton — Rev. William Welsh & Rev.
Thomas Gray
Culter— Rev. Colin A. Bannatyne
Skirling— Rev. David S. M'Donald
United Presbyterian Churches: —
Gillespie, Biggar — Rev. John Scott, m.a.
Moat Park, Biggar— Rev. Alexander Miles
Roberton— Rev. Robert D. Scott
Biggar Borough Police Commi sioners— Wm.
Pillans, chief magistrate; Andrew Smail,
collector & clerk
Corn Exchange, Biggar — David Thomson,
secretary; John Paul, treasurer
Gas Light Company, Biggar — David Thom-
son, secretary ; Geo. Ramsay, manager
Inland Revenue OflBee (stamps & taxes), St.
John st— Robert Glen, sub-distributor &
collector
Lanarkshire (9th Company) Rifle Volunteers
— John Paul, captain; Edward Spence, 1st
lieutenant ; W 7 illiam Johnston, 2ud lieuten-
ant ; George Kelly, drill instructor
Police Station, Biggar — John Bell, sergeant
Public Library, Biggar — Menzies Pairman,
librarian
Public Library, Covington — Maria Bulloch,
librarian
Registrar of births, deaths & marriages for
Biggar— Andrew Smail, Biggar
CONVEYANCE BY RAILWAY,
ON THE CALEDONIAN LINR.
Station, Biggar — Thomas Lindsay, station
master [master
Station, Culter — James Clarkson, station
Station, Broughton — David Jobnston,
station master [master
Station, LAMiNGTON,Walter Davidson,station
Station, Symington — William Smith, station
master [station master
Station, Thankerton — David Crawford,
BLANTYRE.
UNDER the name Blantyre there is comprised three villages— viz.,
High Blantyre, Low Blantyre and Stonefield. The first of
these is a small ancient village, eight miles south by east from Glasgow,
and between two and three miles from Hamilton, situated on the road
between the last-named town and East Kilbride. The second village,
Low Blantyre, rather more than a mile distant in a north-easterly
direction, was built and is owned by Messrs. Henry Monteith & Co.,
dyers, whose large establishment (one hundred years old) is close at
hand, and has an extensive frontage to the River Clyde. The premises
of the Blantyre Weaving Faetory adjoin. It may. be interesting to know
that at one time this villago contained quite an independent and sepa-
rate community, having gates, which still exist, and which used to be
shut at night. It had also a church, graveyard and school of its own.
Of late years, however, this isolation has been entirely discontinued.
It was in a small house of a row in this village that Dr. Living-
stone, the celebrated African explorer and imilanthropist, was horn,
hoth he and his father havingbeen employed iuthemills. Stonefield,
the third village, lying about midway between the other two, is entirely
the creation of the coal trade, and principally inhabited by the miners
employed in the numerous pits in the neighbourhood, belonging to the
large coal-masters— Messrs. Merry & Cuninghame, Messrs. Baird and
Messrs. Dixon, Limited. It was in one of the Blantyre pits that the
great explosion of 22nd October, 1877, took place, causing the death of
over two hundred men and hoys. The destitution and suffering con-
sequent on an event of this kind were vastly diminished by the creation
of a large relief fund, which the country in sympathising benevolence
subscribed, and which still exists to aliment the widows and orphans.
These villages are situated in a rich fertile district, in the middle ward
of the shire. The parish of Blantyre has a front to the Clyde of about
two miles and a half, and extending six miles in length; it embraces an
area of 3,954 acres. To the south of High Blantyre, near the farm of
Park, and in a very picturesque locality, is a spring strongly impregnated
with sulphur ; the water is of a similar quality to that of St. Bernard's
well, near Edinburgh. It was formerly much resorted to, and is still
efficacious in the cure of scrofulous and scorbutic cases. On the south
hank of the Clyde, directly opposite to Bothwell Castle, on a rocky
eminence, stand the ruins of the once splendid priory of Blantyre,
founded early in the thirteenth century. At the Reformation the priory
was demolished, and its revenues, with the patronage of the parish
church, were given by James VI. to Walter Stewart, afterwards lord
treasurer of Scotland, and created a haron in 1606, with the title of Lord
Blantyre. The family is distinguished in both Scottish and British
history. Population of Blantyre parish in 1881, 9,760 ; hut is now (1885)
estimated to he over 11,000.
POST OFFICE, High Blantyre, George Han-is, Post Master. —Letters arrive (from Glasgow and all parts) at 9 30 a.m. and 6 SO p m,, and
are despatched thereto at 11 a.m., and 3 SO and 7 10 p.m. Moneu Order and Telegraph Office and Savings Bank.
Post Office, Stonefield Road, Jane Walker, Post Mistress, — Letters arrive from all parts (from Glasgow) at 7 30 a.m. and 5 p.m., and are
despatched at 9 35 and 11 45 a.m., and 3 45 and 7 30 p.m. The nearest Money Order Office is at High Blantyre.
Post Office, Low Blantyre, Margaret Muir, Post Mistress, — Letters for all parts are despatched to Glasgow at 9 55 a.m., 12 noon, and 4
and 7 45 p.m. ,*«.*-
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