On Saturday 25th April 1914, two Blantyre men, not particularly fond of one another decided to settle their difference in a Burnbank Pub. Differences that were to be settled with gunpowder! Shortly after six o’clock, when the bar in Burnbank was filled with customers, a loud explosion attracted the attention of everybody there to some […]
With the population growing in the 1870’s and mining such a prominent profession, a dangerous practice of leaving gunpowder around was taking place, which could quite easily fall into the wrong hands. I’ve encountered many stories about kids playing with dynamite in Blantyre, and stories about explosions in the public park, to the side of […]