My friend and history colleague Robert Stewart sent me this data after noticing a particular trend in Blantyre burials, following all the recent articles here relating to the 1910s. Many of the articles recently posted were about improvements in Blantyre. Particularly in the years from 1908 – 1918, improvements in sewage and water systems, gas […]
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Common Ground
The Blantyre Monument
Gordon Cook kindly recently shared this A3 poster with me, which he had typed up for the heritage group. The Blantyre Monument – After the destructive explosion of Monday 22nd October 1877, when the bodies of the miners who were killed had been recovered, and all burials had taken place, certain local people raised the […]
Blantyre Cemetery Common Ground
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 […]