Continuing a look at the Blantyre Mining Disaster 22nd October 1877. By road and rail, crowds of people, chiefly miners, poured into the village of Blantyre on the day of the disaster Monday 22nd October 1877 and took the liveliest interest in the progress of operations. The trains especially were crowded to a degree never […]
Here’s another great photo from the Gala day in 1980. These youngsters from Springwells certainly made a nostalgic sight by dressing up as miners. This float from the Springwells Tenant’s Association brought back many memories, especially for older people, of Blantyre mining past.
Every now and again a little gem of a photo arrives. This amazing photo was sent to me from James D Brown via his cousin in London. The tall man in the photo is Mr George Brown, the great grandfather of James. The story given was that he was one of the people responsible for […]
Continuing our look at new ‘old photos’. This time Auchentibber formal Gardens, from the 1910’s around the former Quoiting Green. White, picket fences around the sports ground, the tearoom and inn at the background. This was a popular place for sports for miners after their work and a nice place for any family to visit. […]
During the great miners strike of 1926, some of the striking miners in Blantyre turned their attention to a new tactic. By trying to get their children to strike from going to school! However, the proposed strike of Blantyre School children on Monday 4th October 1926, was later publicly proclaimed by the local miners as being a complete […]
Before Sheriff Mercer, at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Monday 1st November 1926, seven men were charged with forming part of a disorderly crowd of over 700 people in Glasgow Road, Blantyre. This was a time towards the end of the great mining strike and feeling amongst the unemployed miners were still running high, especially to those […]
By the 1960s, Blantyre’s Pits had closed down, but even in the late 1960s, the old miners remembered their harder years by meeting up for annual outings. Such an event took place on Monday 24th June 1968, where a calvacade of 12 buses, some 500 people strong left from the Blantyre Miners Welfare on an […]