New Year 1904 going into 1905 was a strange affair for many people in Blantyre. Whilst 1905 was ushered in by the usual ringing of Church Bells, blowing of horns etc, the New year had an exceptionally quiet beginning. The street presented quiet scenes with hardly anybody about, and the few folk who were out, […]
Continuing a look at the Blantyre Mining Disaster 22nd October 1877. By road and rail, crowds of people, chiefly miners, poured into the village of Blantyre on the day of the disaster Monday 22nd October 1877 and took the liveliest interest in the progress of operations. The trains especially were crowded to a degree never […]
Wilma Bolton sent me this article from Hamilton Advertiser. 19/7/1879. Page 2. Set at a time a couple of years after the Blantyre Disaster, it explores the “demon drink’. “BLANTYRE FOLK by WILLIAM C. McDOUGALL , 1879 THE DEMON DRINK – LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sir, Labouring, as I am, in the midst of this mining district to […]