A final part in the story of Auchinraith Pit Disaster which happened on Saturday 30th August 1930. Continued from Part 10 yesterday. At the cemetery at High Blantyre, the scene was both impressive and sombre. The chief mourners passed through the ranks of St Josephs Silver Band which played the dead march from Saul and […]
Continuing the story of Auchinraith Pit Disaster which happened on Saturday 30th August 1930. Continued from Part 9 yesterday. Today we’re again looking at the funerals of the victims and how this affected the community in Blantyre. The four Silver bands played appropriate music and the weird notes of the piper’s lament seemed to lend […]
Continuing the story of Auchinraith Pit Disaster, on Saturday 30th August 1930. Continued from Part 6 yesterday. Joseph Regan was killed in the explosion. This is a picture of his family. His daughter Margaret (aged 19) with two of the young members of the family now left in her sole care. Her mother had died […]
Continuing the story of Auchinraith Pit Disaster, 1930. Continued from Part 5 yesterday. Today, we’re looking at some of the Interviews of the Survivors. The miners who walked away from the Auchinraith Pit Disaster of Saturday 30th August 1930. A Blantyre Gazette reporters visited most of the survivors who had worked in the ill fated […]
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 […]