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Word on the Street - Is Led Zeppelin the best rock track of all time?

LED Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’ was this week voted the UK’s favourite rock song in a survey carried out by digital radio station Absolute Classic Rock. We took to the streets of Hamilton to see if you agreed.Read

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ROBERT Smellie, of Hamilton auctioneers L. S. Smellie and Sons, was appointed president of Queen’s Park Football Club. Mr Smellie was a former player and had a long association with the Glasgow club.Read

Snow Patrol to headline gig at Glasgow's Bellahouston Park

INDIE rockers Snow Patrol are set to play a special one-off outdoor gig in Glasgow this June.Read

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IT was reported that the causewayed streets of Hamilton were to be periodically “douched” with water, by means of the fire hose.Read

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TWO watch thieves were “cleverly caught” in Hamilton by police and tried at the Carlisle Quarter Sessions. Following the testimonies of constables Turnbull and Smith of the Hamilton Burgh Police and John Elliott and Robert Ross from the Lanarkshire town, they were found guilty. William Leonard was sentenced to two years in a Borstal prison while John Wright was given 12 calendar months’ jail with hard labour.Read

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HAMILTON Caledonian Bowling Club directors decided to open the final season on the ‘old’ green on May 5. Two new greens were to be built on a site secured from His Grace the Duke of Hamilton on the Edinburgh Road, and work was to start immediately so that the turf would be ready for May, 1911.Read

College’s bright young stage stars shine in Footloose

THEATRE students from Motherwell College last week stepped into the limelight at Hamilton Town House with a production of Footloose.Read

Hard rock band Deep Purple played to just 500 fans at Hamilton Town Hall in March 1970.

HAMILTON has played host to some big-name bands but in April 1970 an opportunity was missed by hard-rock fans to watch Deep Purple in concert.Read

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ANNE Leggate or Campbell, inmate of the Inebriates’ Reformatory at Hairmyres, East Kilbride, in which she had been sentenced to three years’ detention in August, 1909, was charged at Hamilton Sheriff Court with having escaped from the reformatory. She pleaded guilty and admitted to having run away on three previous occasions. Sheriff Thomson imposed the maximum sentence of three months’ imprisonment.Read

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LANARKSHIRE received the Sir Waldie Griffiths Cup and medals a month after winning the Inter-Province curling bonspiel at Crossmyloof. Opponents Midlothian lodged a protest, which was dismissed, and Lanarkshire received their prizes.Read

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JASON T. Forgie, managing director of William Baird and Co. coalmasters, was elected chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the use of electricity in the coal mines of Britain.Read

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AN ALL-DAY sitting was assured in the trial by Sheriff and jury in Hamilton, set for March 16, for the four people implicated in what were known as ‘the Newarthill burglaries’.Read

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JAMES Murray, formerly of Hamilton, had the honour of addressing the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the scientific work of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, which he had taken part in as a biologist.Read

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COMPLAINTS were made regarding the prevalence of the playing of street organs in Hamilton. However, it was pointed out that under law any householder – personally or by his servant, or by a police constable – could tell them to move away. Anybody who continued to play an instrument in the street or sing in the street after being asked to depart was liable for a fine of up to 20s. Unless a complaint was made by a householder that a street musician or singer refuses to desist, the authorities were powerless.Read

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A BOTHWELL burglar who feasted sumptuously on pheasant, roast pork and whisky then fell asleep was given four years’ jail, time enough to digest his “gargantuan repast”.Read

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THE first case at Hamilton Sheriff Court of a deported Pole returning to the UK came before Sheriff Thomson. Charles Rutkowski, a miner, had been deported under the Aliens Act 1905 in June, 1909, but was recently found at Bothwell Castle Colliery. He was given one month’s imprisonment, with hard labour.Read

Burns Suppers through the ages.

ADDRESSING THE HAGGIS: for children at Neilsland Primary School in Hamilton, school meals turned to a Burns Supper with the help of popular Scottish singer Bill McCue. For months, P6 and P7 pupils had been working on a project looking at Scottish life, history and culture, leading up to the natural finale in January, 1990.Read

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MOTHERWELL laid claim to two links connecting it to the National Bard. In Mr Gilbert Burns Begg, they could claim as townsman a grand nephew of Robert Burns, Mr Begg being a grandson of the poet’s brother Gilbert. A less well-known link was the fact that a Mrs Weir, of Hamilton Road, was a great grand-daughter of Burns’s ‘Bonnie Annie’.Read

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THE “veteran pedestrian” Mark All, who passed through Hamilton last summer on his task of walking 10,000 miles in 200 days, again passed through the town, having covered 5958 miles in 115 days. Aged 80, Mark was still going strong and looked likely to complete his task.Read

Vox pop.....

WITH Britain’s Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle overlooked for a Brit Award, we took to the streets of Hamilton to ask if the Scots singer should have been included.Read