On Saturday 25th August 1896, a peculiar find on the High Blantyre railway track had police and authorities left with a puzzling mystery. A large quantity of dynamite was found on the railway track at High Blantyre, quite by chance. Police were called for and the officers were immediately engaged in endeavouring to find out […]
On Wednesday 2nd March 1927, 2 Blantyre men were in trouble in the court. John Stirling (18) and James McGrorty (20), both resided at Central Buildings on Glasgow Road (roughly where RBOS is now). They were charged with having between 18th and 20th February 1927 breaking into a magazine store at Gartshore Pit 11 […]
Alex Rochead shared his photos here when he stopped off to take these pictures in May 2015. Just off Sydes Brae is the ruins of Dixon’s Dynamite store, where the colliery once kept the explosives. Today the building is well preserved.
In January 1957, a Burnbank man was jailed for 3 years after admitting stealing explosives from Dixon’s Collieries. Charles Tallis, a 44 year old unemployed labourer of Gordon Terrace, Burnbank was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday 4th January 1957 for his part in breaking into a National Coal Board explosives store […]