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 […]
As we end this week’s articles about the Blantyre Pit Disaster, let’s finish on this photo of part of the Common Ground. Photographed this week by myself, this is the area at the back of the Cemetery where many of the miners of the Pit Disaster of 1877 were buried. Others were buried in other […]
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 […]
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 […]