During February 1917, a very large number of people were transferring their savings at the post office into war bonds in aid of the war loan. Miss Stewart at the Blantyre Post Office and her assistants were kept extremely busy, forced to keep open the post office until late hours for much of that month. […]
Anthony Smith kindly shared these excellent photos of the former Priory Colliery Bing which were taken by his father in 1964. Contractors arrived a few year later in 1966 and 1967 to level this bing, which by my reckoning was the largest man made object to have ever existed in Blantyre. The Bing may have […]
On Sunday 30th April 1967, a single decker old bus which had been used as a workman’s bothy burned down. The bus had doubled as a work hut and was being used by the many men employed in removing the Priory Bing at the former Priory Colliery, Low Blantyre. It is unknown how the blaze […]
About five o’clock on Friday morning of 2nd October 1931 the lamp cabin at the Priory Colliery, Blantyre, belonging to William Baird & Co Ltd., was gutted by fire and the lampman, John Doran, who resides at 5 John Street, Blantyre, was removed to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, suffering from serious burning injuries. On inquiry […]
The Hamilton Herald reported on 10th August 1894 of a new colliery in Blantyre. The Priory Colliery (Bairds number 3). Reported as, “This new colliery now being sunk by the Messrs Bairds’ to the north of Craigknowe (Farm) is being pushed rapidly forward. Last Week the new siding was begun, when Messrs D.K. & H […]
You may remember recently about me posting about the Priory Pit Dynamite Store. Blantyre woman Katarzyna found the little store in woods and asked me what it was. I did suspect that it was the Dynamite store for the colliery (and if so the only building still existing relating to the colliery (with exception of […]
A fire at one of the main haulage roadways at Priory Colliery, Blantyre, near Glasgow, which was discovered on Tuesday 1st October 1935, proved more serious than at first supposed. The fire raged for 2 days. Fifty men with fire extinguishers laboured strenuously fighting the flames, but early on the 3rd October, it was decided to seal […]