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The Story of the Auchinraith Pit Disaster continued from Part 2….. Although the explosion on Saturday 30th August 1930 at Auchinraith Pit 1 must have been one of tremendous force, an amazing fact is that it was not heard on the surface, so the first news of the tragedy took some time to reach the […]
Continued from Part 1 yesterday The Story of the Auchinraith Pit Disaster, 1930 It was speedily realised that the explosion had been most serious and as people started arriving at the Pit, the arrival of the Lanarkshire Rescue Brigade confirmed the news as to how grave the matter was. The men of the brigade are […]
The Story of the Auchinraith Pit Disaster, Blantyre (1930) Nothing was more shocking in Blantyre during 1930 than the Auchinraith Pit Disaster which took the lives of local men. Little has been written in any detail about this lesser known disaster, but though it was on a much smaller scale than the 1877 huge pit […]
On the 15th April 1912 the very day 1500 people lost their lives when the Titanic sank in the Atlantic, a tragedy also unfolded closer to home in Blantyre when Auchinraith Pit 1 collapsed. The pit bottom of Number 1 shaft at Auchinraith Colliery trapping 2 men in the debris. The accident occurred about five […]
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 […]
Little is known about this next victim of the Pit Disaster, but there is some information to be had. Michael Brannan was born in 1851, the son of Irishman John Brannan, farm labourer and Catherine Haggan. Michael came to Blantyre in either 1876 or 1877. He never married, nor had children. Like many other young […]
William Boyle was born in Ireland around 1828. His parents were Hugh Boyle and Rose Ann Gallagher. William married Helen (or Ellen) McDonagh in 1860 at Airdrie and became a coal miner. The 1861 census shows Helen and William living at 1 Clarkston’s Land, Coatdyke, Old Monklands with children Rosy 13 and Mary 3 months. In […]