Continued from Parts 1 – 5….from the Scotsman, Tuesday 23rd October 1877…..describing events in detail from the disaster morning before. We return to Pit 2 and the bravery of the first men sent down to inspect what was happening. One man, however, who made a very narrow escape with his life—to wit, John Sharp, a […]
The council homes which had newly been constructed at Logan Street in the early 1930’s proved too much of a temptation to some Blantyre residents, when upon seeing them built, by comparison to their own circumstances, proved a tempting solution to their own housing crisis. At the start of September 1933, Blantyre squatters, Mr and […]
Mr William Sharp was a Blantyre man. During the General work strikes of 1921 William and his family lived in a small , cramped and basic room in Shuttle Row, Blantyre Works Village, in the very same building as David Livingstone did 100 years earlier. William was thankful for what he had, which was, by […]