Down Memory Lane

50 YEARS AGO

* Smash-and-grab raiders snatched cameras and several pairs of binoculars from Hilston's chemist shop in Wellgate after hurling a brick through a window. The raid occurred between 3.30 and 4am and was the second of its type in the district in four weeks.

* Water short Lanark, where reservoirs were less than one third full and silting, was to enquire into the possibility of joining the Daer Water Board.

* A lorry driver was fined 8 at Lanark Sheriff Court, having admitted driving carelessly on the Glasgow-Carlisle road at Lesmahagow. He cut across a bus without giving a signal, colliding with the other vehicle.

* Carluke's Graham Anderson was beaten in the final of the open bowling tournament at Aberdeen.

* Sir Joshua P Ross-Taylor, of Wandel, Abington, who had died in Edinburgh the previous November, left estate of 51,780. An inventory of this estate had been lodged with the Sheriff Clerk at Lanark.

* Tommy McKinstray was the only retained Carluke Rovers player who had not re-signed for the new season.

* Carluke Rovers season tickets were on sale, priced 15/-.

100 YEARS AGO

* Carluke Town Hall was the venue for the auction of a semi-detached villa in Rankin Street, asking price 400. But there were no bidders so the sale was adjourned.

* Lanark Sheriff Court heard that a chauffeur denied driving recklessly through a detachment of the 4th Highland Light Infantry in the vicinity of Lanark Loch, to the danger of members of the detachment. The accused claimed that he had sounded his horn to warn the soldiers, but they had made no movement to let him through. He was admonished.

* Mr John Clark and Miss May Jackson won a mixed foursome competition at Carnwath Golf Club and received their prizes from Sir Walter Menzies.

* At Lanark Sheriff Court, a New Lanark man denied acting in a disorderly manner while under the influence of drink and challenging a person to fight, in the village on July 12. But he was convicted and fined 15s with the alternative of seven days imprisonment.

* Carstairs native George Beaton was appointed surveyor for Lockerbie.

* French cleaning, dyeing and carpet beating was available from Carluke Steam Laundry.