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 […]
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The Demon Drink
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 […]