Continued from Parts 1 – 3 ….from the Scotsman, Tuesday 23rd October 1877….. The weather during Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st was extremely boisterous and wet, and the sudden fall in the barometer was exceptional. There was during Sunday, it is understood, an unusually large flooding of water in both pits, due alike to the […]
One of the amazing things thats happened whilst I’ve been compiling The Blantyre Project, is the amount of times I discover new relatives! It’s always just as thrilling, as the first time this happened each time I find a link, and a family connection is made. A new second or third cousin here, a new great […]
During the early 1920’s the population of Blantyre dropped slightly, the first time ever in it’s history. This was due to lack of work, saturation of coal mining jobs and the decline of the mills. As with many people in Scotland at the time, suddenly the idea of exploring America seemed a wonderful prospect. Tales […]