In June 2016, Norbert McEwan wrote to me saying, “Two distant relatives of mine…..James and Francis Cosgrove are listed amongst the dead in the terrible 1877 Blantyre disaster. Their sister was my grandmother ( Margaret Cosgrove) on my own dad’s side. I am trying to find out more detail about the family…..in particulat about my […]
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Bardykes Colliery Double Tragedy
Springtime 1940 was remembered by the Miners of Bardykes Colliery as being one that should have been different. Appalling safety lapses resulted in the deaths of two men just weeks apart and instigated inquiries into the safety of the pit. As war raged on in Europe, many of the men employed in the mines were […]

