A Blantyre miner sleeping in his home after night shift work had a rude awakening on the morning of 26th December 1934 when he was almost buried under a fall of ceiling on his bed. For a few minutes he imagined he had been the victim of a roof fall in the pit. Practically the whole […]
During 1856, a fatal accident killed two local men who were working at Blantyre’s Broomhouse Lime Quarry. The Quarry was situated just off the Auchentibber road and Sydes Brae (not far from where the war monument is today). On the 1859 map, the quarry is depicted by the oval shape, nearby to Broomhouse itself. The […]