Many thanks to Alex Rochead who sent me this 1877 list of interments at Dalbeath Cemetery. From October 1877, it features the Catholic miners who were not buried in Blantyre, but instead taken to Dalbeath (St Peters Cemetery) following their funerals. It lists the horrifying reality of the Blantyre Mining Disaster, listing the reason […]
I have marked up this 1955 aerial photo to show some interesting features and how much Blantyre has changed at that location. Looking towards Victoria Street and beyond to the High Blantyre Cemetery, westwards. The houses at Welsh Drive and Victoria Street int he foreground are recognisable and haven’t changed much, but beyond Victoria […]
OK, I can’t sit back and say nothing and see SO many people alarmed by a very misleading post today from others about toppled stones in High Blantyre Cemetery. Another page on the internet has today misled Blantyre residents by showing a small video of toppled and broken gravestones in High Blantyre Cemetery in a […]
During 1988, an extensive project organised by Church Volunteers was undertaken to repair the High Blantyre Old Parish churchyard wall. Great care and effort was put in by volunteers of all ages, who worked hard that summer to go around the perimeter wall, and carefully rebuild the broken sections, including extensively repointing the failing cement. […]
Many people reading this page will now be aware of the fateful disaster on 22nd October 1877 where 216 men and boys lost their lives at Dixons Pits 2 and 3 , High Blantyre. This sad tale remembers the grief one of the mothers endured. Mr & Mrs George McLachlan lived at No 1 Jackson […]
Within Blantyre Cemetery on Cemetery Road, High Blantyre is an area referred to as “Common Ground” To understand this better, I visited fellow history enthusiast’s Robert Stewart’s website, RDS Memorials (http://rdsasmemorials.herobo.com) which best described the cemetery and common ground, as follows, “The cemetery opened in 1875, with the first interment taking place on the 5th. of […]
I’ve recently posted about the Livingstone family members gravestones which were moved from the old Blantyre Works Cemetery to the David Livingstone Centre Grounds during the 1960s. During a visit to the centre in June 2015, I went to see the gravestones (located at the lower end of the gardens in the centre) but was […]