Conditions were difficult in the Blantyreferme camp in the immediate years of people flitting from Dechmont Camp over to Blantyreferme Whins camp in October 1948. From the Scotsman Tuesday 18th January 1949 page 3 CAMP DEPUTATION.— A deputation consisting of two men and two women from the Whins Camp at Blantyreferme, Lanarkshire, have been […]
Photographed here in the mid 1930’s are Blantyreferme Pits 1 and 2. Captured from the Clyde Bridges looking back to Blantyrefereme Bing, Fin Me Oot would be behind the horizon. Around the time of this picture, a few safety incidents occurred, a couple proving fatal. Five men were affected a serious, gassing accident in the Blantyre […]
Pictured here in 1946 is Blantyreferme Colliery. Former Blantyreferme colliery was based not far from Newton but within Blantyre Parish and was owned by Ayrshire Company, A.G Moore & Co, (coalmasters). This scene is captured from the Clyde Bridges looking back over westwards to Blantyreferme colliery with the brickworks on the far right. The bings […]
Pictured here in 1955, courtesy of Alex Rochead are the large machines that were located inside the Haughhead (Blantyreferme) Brickworks. I’ve been looking into the machinery, what it was used for and whom it came from. In these photos, the machines are relatively new. The large engineering machinery was located in a brick built part […]
Saturday 29th October 1932, saw yet another accident at Blantyreferme Colliery. However, this wasn’t in the pit, it was above ground and unusually for any colliery, it didn’t involve the miners but proved just as serious. Margaret Meighan (19), residing at Laighmuir Street, Uddingston, was at work in the Blantyre colliery offices and visited […]
Pictured here in 1937, is Blantyre ferme Colliery 3. In these excellent, clear photos, miners stand for the camera, groups of people at the colliery offices stand outside, with a boy in the foreground on the left. It makes me wonder how many of these people lived nearby at Fin Me Oot / Caldervale? Thanks […]
On 21st June 2015, I was contacted by Australian lady Marg Boardley (nee Sommerville) who emailed, “I’m visiting from Australia and came across your Blantyre page. My great aunt, Helen Smail Sommerville gave her address on her marriage cert in 1917 as Blantyre Lodge, Blantyre. Do you have any record of her working there? She […]