During 1924, the Miner’s Welfare had a planned budget to improve amenities in Blantyre. The Mines Department on Friday 11th July 1924, issued a statement showing the position of the Miners’ Welfare Fund district funds as at June 30th that year. The total of contributions and interest to the whole of district was a whopping […]
In March 1978 Blantyre Civic Week and Gala Committee gathered together in the Miner’s Welfare to pick winners of their competition. Members of the Blantyre Miner’s Welfare were each allocated a horse in the Grand National the previous week and on the first week in April, their winning tickets were turned into prize money. […]
Three Cambuslang youths would seriously regret some moments of madness when they broke into Blantyre Miner’s Welfare in Calder Street in December 1968. They first broke into the centre on 2nd December 1968 and stole 3 bottles of whisky, one bottle of vodka, 400 cigarettes and £8. A successful haul, they decided to come […]
Small, Mr. William B – b1873 –d1944 was a Scottish Trade Unionist. Small was the son of William Small, a draper in Blantyre who became a prominent trade union leader. William B. Small, as he was generally known to distinguish him from his (more famous) father, undertook a legal apprenticeship, but then in 1903, […]
Nathaniel Mains contacted me in September 2015, sharing these photos and adding, “My Grandfather William Mains playing bowls with the then Queen Elizabeth at Blantyre Miners Welfare circa 1945” I’ve seen one of the photos before but only in a poor resolution newspaper report. Nathaniel actually having the photos ensured they’re shared here in better […]
This copy of the Blantyre Gazette belonged to my grandmother. Saturday 26th March 1938. Blantyre Parish Church Sunday school put on a lavish Pageant. The children and young adults put on a production in the Miner’s Welfare with 23 acts and scenes from Blantyre’s history. I have a detailed account of each scene, which commenced […]
I would like to invite you to the film premier of `No Moans on the South Side‘ on Friday the 2nd of October from 5pm-7pm at Blantyre Miners Welfare Resource Centre. The film looks at the Blantyre disaster which took place on the 22nd of October 1877 and remains Scotland’s largest mining disaster. It has been devised, […]