I think this article deserves to be shared to show some awareness and memory of the dead. All too often when we think of the 200+ victims of the 1877 Blantyre Explosion, we may think they are all buried in High Blantyre Cemetery. After all, there was a large monument erected by Dixon’s in their […]
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Sketch of Blantyre Colliery
Blantyre Colliery, Lanarkshire, opened in 1865 and owned by W Dixon and Co Ltd., was the scene of ‘one of those terrible fire-damp explosions’ in 1877 when 207 miners were killed, the worst pit disaster of its kind in Scotland. The neat low row of miners’ cottages had back gardens for growing vegetables or keeping […]