Let’s go back to 1976 next and to High Blantyre. Pictured here courtesy of Gordon Cook is the view from former Dixon’s Pit 2 looking across to the relatively new Jerusalem Houses. A recognisable sight, still with their flat roofs at the time. The industrial activities in the foreground is the earthworks phase for the […]
This is a wonderful little video taken in High Blantyre in 1947. It’s crystal clear as it was professionally filmed for the Coal Board on the very day the collieries were nationalised. Filmed at Dixon’s Pit 2, where now Priestfield cemetery stands, this 71 year old film features miners of the colliery and has […]
This has to be one of my favourite images of old Blantyre. Crowds of people make their sorrowful way down what would become Douglas Street on that horrible day in October 1877, the sharp turn still visible today near the bottom of Douglas Street. The three pits are pictured. On the left Priestfield Colliery (Dixons […]
Pictured here in the 1890’s are the miners of Dixon’s Pit 2 at High Blantyre. I’ve managed to zoom in on many of the miner’s faces, and whilst these men are long passed on, they were likely almost all Blantyre people, living mostly at Stonefield’s Dixons Rows or at Priestfield. These men would only be […]