On 4th February 23, I was honoured to preside over the unveiling ceremony of the new miners memorial at High Blantyre Cemetery. As my fundraising and co organiser colleague Jimmy Small and I stood by the new chest high memorial stones, the old Dixon’s obelisk, still rightly dominated the scene. That same week, my history […]
Back in October 2021, I took this photo at High Blantyre Cemetery. I’ve written a lot about the obelisk in the middle, the memorial to the miners who died in the Pit Disaster. However, around the obelisk are smaller ones, remembering prominent figures of Blantyre community life gone by. One such obelisk in the tall […]
Researched by Paul Veverka. Words from the book, “Blantyre Glasgow Road South – The Real Story” (c) 2017 **Update: Since writing this, I have revisited and now have a huge amount of expanded detail about John Ness, available in the Feb 2020 book, “Blantyre People” by Paul Veverka (c) 2020 During the late 19th Century […]
Pictured here in 1904 is High Blantyre Cemetery and also the signal railway box that sat near the railway line, over the wall at the time. The signal box you see, is actually the top of it, being raised high above the railway. Had it survived it would have been close to Burnbrae Road today. […]