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PROVOST Smellie of Hamilton received from the Earl Marshall an invitation by command of the King to attend the Coronation at Westminster Abbey on Thursday, June 22. The provost replied expressing his inability to be present – ironically because he had invited representative townsmen to meet him on that day in Hamilton Town Hall at a cake and wine banquet in honour of the Coronation, and had arranged a series of entertainments for the public, at which his presence would be necessary.Read

Down Memory Lane Apr 29 2010

INVITED by the member for Mid-Lanark, Mr J H Whitehouse, 200 of the British Boy Scouts were shown over the House of Commons and enjoyed tea on the terrace.Read

Down Memory Lane Apr 22 2010

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

Down Memory Lane Apr 15 2010

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

Down Memory Lane Apr 08 2010

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

Down Memory Lane Apr 01 2010

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

Down Memory Lane Mar 25 2010

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

Down Memory Lane Mar 18 2010

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

Down Memory Lane Mar 11 2010

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

Down Memory Lane Mar 04 2010

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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