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This fantastic photo is of early Blantyre football team, “Blantyre Priory Rovers“. Handed in kindly by Mrs. N McCue, I got excited seeing that it was marked with a date of 1880. If so, this would have made one of the earliest known Blantyre football team photos, even predating Blantyre Vics. However, according to my […]
Penny Robertson, who lives in Australia sent in this wonderful photo this week, adding, “I have just discovered your website and have been fascinated to read about the history of Blantyre. My grandfather was Daniel Sprott (a brother of William Sprott who was killed in the Auchinraith Coal disaster of 1930). My grandmother was Margaret […]
As we end this week’s articles about the Blantyre Pit Disaster, let’s finish on this photo of part of the Common Ground. Photographed this week by myself, this is the area at the back of the Cemetery where many of the miners of the Pit Disaster of 1877 were buried. Others were buried in other […]
This morning, as with each year on this particular day, we remember the 215 men and boys who sadly lost their lives in the Blantyre Pit Disaster. At 8.45am on 22nd October 1877, a huge explosion caused by fire damp occurred in Pit 3, also significantly affecting Pit 2 in High Blantyre. Deep below the […]
This is the story of the youngest victim of the Blantyre Pit Disaster, young James Clyde, aged only 12. There is nothing more sad about the Pit Disaster of October 1877 than hearing of the death of children and no more so to hear of children working and losing their young lives underground, not even […]
From all victims of the Blantyre Pit Disaster of 1877, there’s quite possibly no more sad story than that of the Clyde Family and in particular the heartache that Mrs Agnes Clyde would have to endure. Losing multiple members of her family, the youngest was only 12 who was also recognised as tragically being the […]
This is the tragic story of one of the miners who lost his life in the Blantyre Pit Disaster of 1877. James Brodie, was the son of John Brodie (shepherd) and Mary Turnbull. Born in 1851 in Lanarkshire. Coming to Blantyre between 1871 and 1874, the timing fits well with new opportunities for coalminers being offered […]