Lifestyle News for 24 December 2009

Down Memory Lane Dec 24 2009

POST Office staff were praised after they managed to get a strangely-addressed letter to the rightful place. The card had no address but on the writing side there was ‘Wednesday to Mr James Dow of the Blan – some sticks for firewood’. The card was posted in Glasgow and postal authorities there had sent it on to Blantyre, writing ‘try Dow, timber merchant, Blantyre’. It so happened that it was intended for Mr James Dow of the Blantyre Saw Mills, who intended to have the bit of paper framed and saved as the nucleus for a Blantyre museum.Read