Words from forthcoming book, “Blantyre Explained” by Paul D Veverka (c) 2016 Barely 18 months after the large pit explosion of 1877, on 2nd July 1879 Dixons number one pit, Blantyre suffered a loss of 28 lives. The 1879 disaster occurred in the Ell coal, the shallowest of the three seams. The coal was worked from number […]