The Blantyre Project: A Journey in Time - Volume 3

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It was also quite inspiring to be both shown around the state-of-the-art facility and hear first-hand from staff providing care about how they are using their expertise to support people to live well, safely, and independently at home. Steven Simpson, MD of Cruden Group, said, “This has been a fantastic collaboration to deliver exceptional, technology-enabled homes that will allow older people to live more independently. Menu: Coal | Early Discovery | Blantyre Pits & Collieries | Coalmasters | Miner’s Homes | Coal Mining Life | Strikes | Blantyre Mining Accidents | 1877 Blantyre Pit Disaster

Plans for the Care Hub were approved in December 2019 following extensive consultation with the public, though the pandemic and efforts to find the right contractor, delayed construction.This is of course the new state of the art Blantyre Care Hub, with its various new buildings, homes, gardens and parking. In the foreground is the playground of the current St Joseph’s School. Taken (I think in the 1972), this is High Blantyre photographed from Sydes Brae Bing, looking over to Blantyre Old Parish Church. Craigmuir is on the left hand side and the church manse on the right, just beside Douglas Street.… The facility had been opened since March 23, but official opening ceremony was decided upon for June.

|On the morning of 22nd October 1877, at Dixon’s Pit 3, High Blantyre a large explosion took the lives of 215 men and boys, remaining to this day as Scotland’s worst ever Pit Accident. Our list below updates the amount of 207 previously thought to have passed away. This unique archive is extensively researched for the events of that day.Extracts from the book draft “Blantyre Schools – sit up straight” by Paul Veverka explores the requirement and construction of Blantyre’s schools, including in some cases, their demise and explores the Parochial and Parish Education’s involvement.