I was reminded recently of the horror the men faced when they attempted to rescue the trapped miners on 22nd October 1877, during High Blantyre’s Pit disaster. Reading through Andy Paterson’s excellent book, “A Blast from the past”, Andy has described the event in such detail that leaves the reader in no doubt what those […]
During the middle of November 2014, I visited a construction site on the outskirts of Blantyre on Hillhouse Road. At the invite of ‘Ogilvie Contractors’, I was permitted on to this modern construction site, which has a very special connection to Blantyre’s history. The site is of course the old site of Dixon’s Pit 3, […]
Robert Brownlie contacted me on the 8th November 2014, enclosing a couple of graphics to support his childhood memory, which he describes below. “As a teenager I spent most of my free time riding my Dirt bike along this stretch of dismantled Strathaven railway line, accessed from opposite Hamilton Drive on Sydes Brae ! Little […]
It pains me to say this, but Hamilton Technology Park is actually IN Blantyre. It is within the boundaries of Blantyre Parish and really should have been called ‘Blantyre Technology Park’. It annoys me greatly that the boundary doesn’t appear to be considered in the naming of the park, which is now a major central […]