The date of this photo is 6th January 1947. The occasion is the day the mines were nationalised by the Coal Board. The venue is Priestfield Colliery 1 (Dixons Pit 1) and this plaque was erected on the same day the NCB flag was hoisted above the pit offices. Andra McAnulty was guest of honour […]
SHAFT COLLAPSES AT PIT. Coal production at Blantyre Colliery was brought to a standstill in the first week of August 1957 by the partial collapse of the shaft of No. 1 Pit that first Monday of the month. Some 450 men are affected right away, but many were given other jobs on the surface. So it came […]
I love this brilliant picture, taken from a film recently shown to me. Pictured in 1947, in exceptional clarity is Dixons Pit 3 at Priestfield High Blantyre. There are SO many people from Blantyre in this picture and I’m hoping some readers recognise people. The large crowd assembled on 6th January 1947 are watching the […]
In 1947 when the National Coal Board was launched throughout the Nation’s existing collieries, Andra McAnulty was described nicely by the now defunct Blantyre Gazette. As he unfurled the National Coal Board flag at Dixon’s Colliery in High Blantyre, the paper said “This old war horse still going strong.” At the time Andra was 86 years […]