Fire broke out in the surface structure of Blantyreferme Colliery 1&2 on Wednesday 19th July 1950 which saw the pithead destroyed and considerable alarm for the miners. Five hours after the fire had broken out, 36 miners who had been trapped, came out of Newton Colliery after a two mile underground walk in partial […]
I’m adding this story to Blantyre Project as it was a Blantyre man who was injured. There were those though, who fared far worse. On Friday 11th March 1938, two miners were electrocuted and two injured at Newton No. 3 Colliery, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. The dead were Miles M’Hugh, fireman. Duke’s Road, Cambuslang, and Richard James, […]