At 9.30am this morning (Sunday 22nd October 2017), it will be exactly 140 years to the minute since the tragic Blantyre Pit Disaster, which killed over 200 men and boys. The terrible explosion, still to this day Scotland’s worst mining disaster occurred at Dixons Collieries in High Blantyre and at the time killed almost 5% […]
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Exclusive: No Moans on the South Side
Residents of Blantyre enjoyed a premiere screening of a new Blantyre film, “No Moans on the South side” yesterday, Friday 2nd October 2015 at the Miner’s Welfare Community Resource Centre. The film was funded by the Lottery Heritage and was organised by Pits, Ponies, People and Stories as part of their 2 year project to […]