Blantyre History of Mining

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Poems about Miners	A Day in a Miners Life	Blantyre History of Mining
Blantyre Mining Disaster 1877	Miner’s Wives Run To the Pithead	Volunteers of the 1877 Disaster
Reading List of the Dead	Recovery of 25 More Bodies	Three aspects that should be considered.
A Volunteer Rescuer’s Experience	1877 Miners Funeral	Dixon’s Pit Disaster Survivors
Rescuers of the 1877 Disaster	Presentation of Bibles	Heroes of Blantyre
The Ejection of the Blantyre Widows	Blantyre and the blackness of darkness	“Blantyre” A Scottish Mining Disaster
William Dixon	Working Conditions	Pit Ponies
Pit Blacksmiths	Dixon’s Miners 1880	Wee Shrinkers
Miner’s Wife 1907	Housing Conditions of Miners	Baird’s Raws
Dixon’s Raws	Priestfield Miners Rows	Priory Rows
Fin-Me-Oot	Mount Pleasant Miners Cottages	Comparison of building quality
Blantyre Pits	Auchinraith Pit	Blantyreferme Pit
Craighead Pit	Priory Pit	Bardykes Colliery 1874 – 1962
Priestfield Pit 1915	Dixon’s No 1 and 2 Pits	Andrew McAnulty
Hunger Marches in Blantyre	Auchinraith Pit Disaster	Loss of Six Lives
Recollections of Scotland’s Past – Coal Mining	Blantyre Man’s Clever Invention	The 1877 Blantyre Explosion
The Blantyre Explosion – by Dick Gaughan	Gambling Tossing School	Sir Humphry Davy
Miner’s Piece Box	Miner’s Clay Pipe	1877 Disaster Memorial Service
Great Fire at High Blantyre	Auchengeich Disaster	Saltcoats Miners Home
Woman in Mining Part One	Woman in Mining Part Two	Our living accommodation over the years
	Names of Individual Fatalities

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