I’ve been exploring the miners strike of Summer 1894 and some of the hardships and stories which came out of Blantyre during that time. This little strange story is worth telling. On 3rd August 1894, Mr Patrick Dennis Delaney , a miner of Burnbank was up in court in Hamilton charged with a breach of […]
By the end of August 1894, the Scottish Coal Miners strike was by then into its 9th week. I hope you find my research into this difficult time as interesting and thought provoking as I did. Its estimated over 70,000 men had been idle in resistance by collective Coalmasters proposals to reduce their earnings by […]
A strike by more than 100 workers brought Robertson’s ginger factory to a standstill in April 1977. The dispute which lasted just over a week was over workers being of the opinion that one of their supervisor’s had been unfairly sacked. But following the strike, Robertson’s managers did a u -turn and reinstated the dismissed, […]
During the great miners strike of 1926, some of the striking miners in Blantyre turned their attention to a new tactic. By trying to get their children to strike from going to school! However, the proposed strike of Blantyre School children on Monday 4th October 1926, was later publicly proclaimed by the local miners as being a complete […]
Before Sheriff Mercer, at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Monday 1st November 1926, seven men were charged with forming part of a disorderly crowd of over 700 people in Glasgow Road, Blantyre. This was a time towards the end of the great mining strike and feeling amongst the unemployed miners were still running high, especially to those […]
850 MINERS IDLE OVER ONE MAN THEY DEMAND HIS REINSTATEMENT AT SCOTS COLLIERY The failure of an underground coal-cutting machineman to turn up for his work on the evening of Sunday 7th August 1938 and the consequent refusal of the pit manager on the following Monday night to allow him to start was responsible for […]