A fire at one of the main haulage roadways at Priory Colliery, Blantyre, near Glasgow, which was discovered on Tuesday 1st October 1935, proved more serious than at first supposed. The fire raged for 2 days. Fifty men with fire extinguishers laboured strenuously fighting the flames, but early on the 3rd October, it was decided to seal […]
A report from the Dundee Evening Telegraph, Friday 11th September 1936. Pictured is (non Blantyre) but similar “stay in strike” from the same era. “About 5000 miners in the Blantyre district of Lanarkshire are idle to-day. They are taking part in a one-day strike in sympathy with the stay-in strikers. This follows a midnight meeting of […]
Having had an idle day for the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on Wednesday 12th May 1937, the 500 miners employed Blantyre Colliery, belonging to William Dixon, Ltd., were again idle on Thursday 13th May as a mark of sympathy for a workmate who had been killed in No. 2 Pit, High Blantyre. […]
850 MINERS IDLE OVER ONE MAN THEY DEMAND HIS REINSTATEMENT AT SCOTS COLLIERY The failure of an underground coal-cutting machineman to turn up for his work on the evening of Sunday 7th August 1938 and the consequent refusal of the pit manager on the following Monday night to allow him to start was responsible for […]