Cooper Ancestry
Susan Silva contacted me back in January 2017 saying, “I’m hoping to get some assistance on an ancestry matter. My grandmother was from Blantyre, and subsequently emigrated to Canada […]
Tag Archives: dixons
Blantyre’s Day of Remembrance
On 22nd October 1927, Blantyre stopped to remember the great pit disaster in High Blantyre that had happened 50 years earlier. Today, 139 years later we do the same […]
Dixon’s Rows, Blantyre
Dixon’s Rows – or Dixons’s Raws were former single storey, small miner’s houses consisting of 8 streets totalling 340 houses, of which 306 were lived in, the others being […]
Dynamite Store near Redburn
I’ve been surprised lately to find out how many Colliery Dynamite stores still exist in Blantyre. One at Sydes Brae, another near Craigknowe and one at Bardykes, so I […]
Deceased Mistaken Identity 1877
Just over a fortnight, after the 1877 Pit disaster in Blantyre, the Edinburgh Evening News on Tuesday 6th November 1877 (pg2) reported on a case of mistaken identity. […]
1879 Colliery Accident
Words from forthcoming book, “Blantyre Explained” by Paul D Veverka (c) 2016 Barely 18 months after the large pit explosion of 1877, on 2nd July 1879 Dixons number one pit, Blantyre suffered […]
Dixon’s Rows not owned by Dixons
I was surprised to make this discovery in November, and had to find a second opinion, after noticing it, as it changes many publications and historical articles. Dixon’s Rows […]
Demise of Dixon’s Colliery, Blantyre
SHAFT COLLAPSES AT PIT. Coal production at Blantyre Colliery was brought to a standstill in the first week of August 1957 by the partial collapse of the shaft of No. 1 […]
Blantyre Blacksmiths at Priestfield
You may have seen this little colourised photo of Blantyre Blacksmiths on Andy Paterson’s excellent website where he has colorised Blantyre postcards and photos. I thought I’d upload the high […]