The Story of the Blantyre Pit Explosion 1877 by Rev Stewart Wright 1885 published in the “Annals of Blantyre” The annals of our parish would certainly not be complete without some allusion to that catastrophe which so recently brought fish out if its obscurity into a sad prominence before the whole world, we mean the […]
In January 1957, a Burnbank man was jailed for 3 years after admitting stealing explosives from Dixon’s Collieries. Charles Tallis, a 44 year old unemployed labourer of Gordon Terrace, Burnbank was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday 4th January 1957 for his part in breaking into a National Coal Board explosives store […]
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 […]
I’ve previously posted this photo, but wanted to repost it again, as I have to admit to having the wrong decade previously. Jim Cochrane not only pointed me in the right direction to the 1950’s as opposed to earlier, but Gordon Cook has also confirmed to me that the 1950’s is the decade. Gordon went […]
A significant meeting for Blantyre took place on Tuesday 5th May 2015 where South Lanarkshire Councillors passed a motion for Blantyre’s brand new Cemetery. An agreement was reached to purchase 4.9 acres of land at Sydes Brae above Newhouse, which will accommodate over 1900 new lairs. Designed for Blantyre’s burial needs for the next 30 […]
Thomas Watson (45), Mrs Watson, and Kenneth Sinclair—all from Priestfield Farm, High Blantyre, Lanarkshire received serious injuries at Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire on 23rd June 1937, when the saloon car driven by Watson skidded on a steep hill and crashed into a bus with an excursion party from Stirling. Petrol from the damaged vehicles ran down the […]
As a surveyor, I love studying old maps. Looking at Roy’s Military map of 1747, specifically at the High Blantyre Main Street area, I think I have found something interesting and perhaps forgotten to history? The 1747 map shows the road winding through High Blantyre which was eventually to become Main Street. Zooming in at […]