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It seems barbaric to us now, but it’s easy to forget that there were ponies being used in the mines and they too were victims of the Blantyre Pit Disaster. Such animals had underground stables, living life under the ground and would surely have been blinded by sunlight if they ever came up. Looking after […]
This is the story of Peter ANDERSON, a young boy of just 15 years, who died in the Blantyre Pit Explosion on Monday 22nd October 1877. Peter was born in 1862 in England, the son of Peter Anderson Snr, a pit sinker from Edinburgh and Mary McGinnes. His mother died in childbirth, bringing him into […]