Continued from Part 1…. So, Alex and I, after a few visits to a Riverside location not far from the Priory, had uncovered the large stone slab which allegedly covered the mythical Blantyre Tunnel. We had scraped the soil off the sloping slab, which was found exactly where Patrick McAleenan had told us it would […]
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Priory Tunnel Search Part 1
One of the most interesting things I’ve done in 2015, was to head off in a proper search for the fabled Priory Tunnel, a long standing myth that Bothwell Castle once used to be connected to Blantyre Priory. I’ve previously written about my theory that the 1947 collapse of the Priory Colliery Bing into the […]