Gordon Cook kindly recently shared this A3 poster with me, which he had typed up for the heritage group. The Blantyre Monument – After the destructive explosion of Monday 22nd October 1877, when the bodies of the miners who were killed had been recovered, and all burials had taken place, certain local people raised the […]
It was 138 years ago today that Blantyre (and Scotland) suffered its worst ever mining tragedy. Over 200 men and boys died in Dixons Pit 2 and 3 at High Blantyre, which must have affected Blantyre’s residents deeply for generations. Today, we remember those Blantyre men and boys who bravely worked hard to support their […]
Pictured a few years ago in High Blantyre Cemetery is Dixon’s Monument. Erected by William Dixon Ltd, the monument remembers 240 miners (men and boys) who died in the blasts of 22nd October 1877 and 2nd July 1879. Many protestant miners ended up buried here, with many of the Catholic miners, in Dalbeath Cemetery. Thanks […]
You may have driven past this a hundred times and perhaps not stopped to admire it’s beauty or purpose. Located in High Blantyre, up Sides Brae at Auchentibber is the War Memorial. In 1921, just a few years after the first world war, the inhabitants of Auchentibber (then a small village just outside Blantyre) decided […]