Residents in Blantyre were treated at the Broadway Cinema in October 1957, of a re-enactment film of the Dixon’s Explosion. To celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the tragedy, the Broadway screened the film and the newspaper reports suggested in advance just how popular it was going to be. The extract from the Blantyre Gazette tells, […]
In November 2014, Betty McLean in Canada contacted me about finding a vent pipe in High Blantyre that was close to the site of the 1877 Pit explosion. The vent pipe was found in the verge , not far from the pavement on Hillhouse road, not too far from the old location of the BIG […]
On 22nd October 2014, it will have been 137 years since the Blantyre Pit Explosion that killed 215 men and boys. Robert Stewart approached me recently with an idea for an article that remembered not only the men that died, but also so many children of such a young age. It’s easy to forget when […]
This has to be the oldest family photo I have (now passed down to me). It’s a photo that’s been used often in several publications. Incredibly, the people in this photo form the rescue party for the infamous Dixon’s Pit Mining Accident in October 1877. Taken over 147 years ago, this photo has my ancestor, […]