Please take some moments to read this story, which happened directly under the current site of the current Redburn Farm Restaurant in High Blantyre. The following story has been pieced together from several newspaper reports and tells of how 6 miners were killed at Dixons pit 3 colliery on 5th March 1878, less than […]
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 […]