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1929 would be a year miner William Kilpatrick of 293 Glasgow Road would have liked to have forgotten about. The miner, employed at Bardykes Colliery found another man’s payline, and as well as collecting his own wage, went back to the office at a later time when it was staffed by another person, and handed […]
Bardykes Colliery pictured here around 1940. Originally sunk on the site of an infectious disease hospital, it was nicknamed the ‘Spittal Colliery’. A dispute closed it in 1907 but the Summerlee Iron Company reopened it in 1908. The company owned by then owner of Crossbasket, George Neilson. On Saturday 21st March 1936 a terrible disaster […]
Thank you to Mary Crowe for emailing me this old payslip of our Uncle Edward McGuire, who used to work with the Summerlee Iron Company, a miner at Bardykes Colliery. From the 11th January 1930, the slip records the tonnage of coal extracted, and has a lot of welfare benefits such as doctors pay, infirmary […]
Bardykes Colliery, sunk on the site of an infectious disease hospital, was nicknamed the ‘Spittal Colliery’. A dispute closed it in 1907 but the Summerlee Iron Company reopened it in 1908. In 1949 shaft No.2 caved in but No.1 shaft worked coal until 1962. The remaining No.1 shaft (1,632 feet deep) and its steam engine […]
The miners of Bardykes Colliery had a lucky escape on the evening of Thursday 14th October 1949. The news report is as follows: Pithead Structure Crashes The pithead structure at No. 2 Pit of Bardvkes Colliery, Blantyre, collapsed yesterday evening. No one was hurt. The main shaft caved in on Monday, since when the colliery […]
Tragic circumstances on the evening of Saturday 21st March 1936 occurred when a pit accident in Blantyre claimed the lives of five men. Exceptional bravery was demonstrated as rescue parties worked unceasingly for about 15 hours in imminent peril from a dangerous roof to recover the bodies from the debris. The accident occurred in a […]