Springtime 1940 was remembered by the Miners of Bardykes Colliery as being one that should have been different. Appalling safety lapses resulted in the deaths of two men just weeks apart and instigated inquiries into the safety of the pit. As war raged on in Europe, many of the men employed in the mines were […]
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1938 Bride to Be Disappears
Very often, people following this website are very generous and hand in something old for me to look at, or even add to my growing collection of Blantyre documents. An old newspaper was recently one of those items, given to me by Blantyre man Jim Brown. It’s an issue of “The Evening Time” dated 15th […]