On the morning of Saturday 15th June 1895, a very serious accident took place at the new Whistleberry Colliery at the time being sunk for Mr Archibald Russell of Auchinraith. Two sinkers Hugh Connelly and James Kyle were ascending the shaft (which at the time had been dug down to 130 fathoms). The engineman having […]
A sad coincidence in connection with the funerals of the victims of the 1930 Auchenraith Blantyre Colliery explosion occurred and is re-told here in a short, but remarkable story. Two ladies living in Wishaw had decided to attend the funerals of the victims in Blantyre. The first one called upon the second one at her Wishaw […]