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	Disaster Encyclopedia Article @ Befell.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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	Scottish Mining Villages - Blantyre Parish
		Blantyre works, or Low Blantyre, lies 1 3/4 miles to the N E on the left bank of the Clyde, opposite Bothwell, with which it is connected by a fine suspension bridge, and near Blantyre station (with a Post Office under Glasgow) on the Clydesdale section of the Caledonian.
		In Blantyre he was born; and within a short distance of his birthplace it is proposed to (1881) to build, at the cost of £4,000, a memorial UP Church, in the tower of which his statue will be placed.
		There is a chapel at the Blantyre Mills, erected by the company for the accommodation of the work-people employed there, and containing sittings for 400 persons; the minister's stipend is paid, one-half by the proprietors of the works, and the other half from the seat-rents.
	www.mining-villages.co.uk /10.html (2037 words)

	Blantyre mining disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Blantyre mining disaster which happened on the morning of October 22, 1877, in Blantyre, Scotland, was and remains Scotland’s worst.
		Blantyre Colliery, William Dixons pit numbers 1 and 2 both blasted killing 207 miners of which the youngest victim was a boy of 11.
		At this time rescue arrangements were inadequate and Alexander Macdonald, president of the Miners' National Association and a former miner prevented the surviving employees from attempting a rescue on safety grounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blantyre_mining_disaster (312 words)

	The Lanarkshire Mining Industry
		Mining was a dangerous occupation not only from injury, but problems caused by damp and breathing in coal dust, the mining Unions having to fight hard to improve working conditions.
		Working in the mines was very dangerous and unhealthy and most miners who survived the physical dangers inherent in the working environment eventually succumbed to mine-related respiratory diseases such as silicosis in later life.
		There was some resistance to the action of the mine owners but this resistance was short-lived as the police and "auxiliaries" were brought in to enforce the will of the owners upon the miners and their families, often by extremely forcible means.
	www.sorbie.net /lanarkshire_mining_industry.htm (2173 words)

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		The mine was known to be very gassy but complaints by miners a few days before the disaster were fobbed off by the foreman, Joseph Gilmour.
		The inquiry in to the disaster failed to identify the precise cause but it was likely due to a sudden release of gas from a small roof fall being ignited by a naked flame.
		The ejection of the Blantyre widows was a sad and disgraceful end to the tragic story of the Blantyre explosion.
	www.localgossip.org /body/about/history/blantyre/disaster.htm (627 words)

	Blantyre - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Blantyre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Modern Blantyre was formed in 1956 by the union of the towns of Blantyre and the railway centre of and Limbe (8 km/5 mi away).
		Blantyre has a major railway station at Limbe through which Malawi's tobacco exports are shipped to Beira, Mozambique.
		There was a gentleman of the name of Blantyre staying at the hall; he always rode Lizzie, and praised her so much that one day Lady Anne ordered the side-saddle to be put on her, and the other saddle on me.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Blantyre (235 words)

	.::BlantyrePast~1877 Disaster::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At that time High Blantyre was 'a maze of dirty and intricate ways and byways' with a mine slightly to the south of the village.
		The mine like others in the area was known to be very gassy but complaints by miners a few days before the disaster were fobbed off by the foreman, Joseph Gilmour.
		It was to take a week before the bodies were removed entirely from the mine which caused great distress for the families and incensed the villagers.
	www.blantyrepast.com /1877.html (356 words)

	Andrew McAnulty
		A month later, Mr.McAnulty was paid a unique tribute by The National Union of Mineworkers (Scottish Area) when they agreed to pay him a pension of £2 weekly during the remainder of his lifetime as a tangible token of appreciation for his work on behalf of the miners during a period of sixty years.
		It is interesting to recall the terms of the letter which the Blantyre veteran received at that time from the general secretary of the union, William Pearson.
		William Gallacher, M.P. for West Fife; representatives of the Communist Party in Blantyre and from the District Headquarters in Motherwell; officials of the National Coal Board and the National Union of Mineworkers and representatives of the local pit union branches.
	www.pitwork.net /mcanulty.htm (868 words)

	My Turn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The economic prospect of uranium mining in Malawi is a great potential for a landlocked country that depends on agriculture as a source of income.
		It is one thing to enjoy the short benefits of uranium mining and it is something else to entirely damage the lives of millions of people and ruin the entire landscape in the pursuit of dangerous minerals.
		Mining is a dangerous project, especially with uranium, insurance companies have become weary of the industry as well, because of its heavy liability for work-place accidents, chemical spills and unsecured cleanup expenses.
	www.nationmalawi.com /articles.asp?articleID=14365 (902 words)

	Scottish Mining Villages - 1931 Disaster
		Ten men lost their lives in the worst mining disaster in the history of the Fife Coalfields which occurred on Saturday 31st October 1931 at about midday at Bowhill Colliery, Cardenden.
		Afterwards he said that it was the greatest disaster that had occurred in the Fife coalfields and that during his 58 years connection with industry he had not seen similar heart-rending scenes.
		He considered that the explosion may be due to the ignition of inflammable gas by electric spark in some part of the mechanism of the fan the which the men were engaged in moving from one position to another.
	www.mining-villages.co.uk /67.html (1776 words)

	Coal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This law was not changed until 1775 when it was then allowed that all new men entering the mines were allowed to be free, however it was not fully remedied until 1799.
		In the late 1700's coal was being mined in Cambuslang and brought in to fuel the furnaces and steam engines of the Blantyre Works and Mills which opened in 1785.
		Blantyre was reputed to be, at this time; "a district of pits, engine houses, smoke and grime", this description no doubt led to the nickname the town endured for many years as "Dirty Auld Blantyre".
	www.localgossip.org /body/about/history/blantyre/coal.htm (375 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Scotland's People - Blantyre and the blackness of darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When the horror and the enormity of Scotland's worst mining disaster began to sink in to the relatives of those left behind in the dingy little town known as "Dirty Auld Blantyre", their cries of sorrow could be heard for many a mile.
		An inquiry into the disaster failed to find the precise cause of the explosion but it is generally held to be a sudden release of gas that was then ignited by a naked flame.
		A year before, the Blantyre miners had been so fearful for their safety in the mines that, when Dixons refused them a wage rise to compensate, they went on strike and were immediately sacked.
	heritage.scotsman.com /people.cfm?id=621352006 (1306 words)

	The Blantyre Explosion
		The explosion, one of the biggest disasters in the history of the mines, occurred at High Blantyre on October 22, 1877.
		As with the stall ballads of lost love and brutal murder, the tragedy was presented in personal terms - [...] a young woman of vague features stands by a river lamenting for her lover killed in the mine.
		For all that, no comment is offered beyond a general curse on the cruel mine; an air of fatalism hangs over this kind of song, the hero is a fine boy but a mere toy of destiny, like the heroes of the folk ballads of earlier times.
	mysongbook.de /msb/songs/b/blantyre.html (779 words)

	Mining Disasters in Lanarkshire
		While the mine was known to produce firedamp from sudden outbursts, another less obvious hazard was the fact that there were several miles of old workings, which would exude firedamp which could build up to dangerous levels.
		The announcement was received with pathetic interest by the mining community, and the deepest sympathy was expressed with the poor woman in her sorrowful circumstances.
		As they all knew the disaster was one of unprecedented in the district, and it was surely sufficient to arouse their sympathy when they thought of the wives and the orphans of the bread winners who had been cut off.
	www.mcpitz.com /disasters.html (9033 words)

	The Blantyre Disaster - Blantyre's Ain Website
		For some pitworkers in the coalmining community of Blantyre, the morning of Monday the 22nd of October 1877 began hours before dawn struggled to reveal a cold, wet wintery day to the nine and a half thousand residents of the town.
		Through breaks in the clouds, the full moon provided little light to see the smoke begin to curl from chimneys as coals were poked into life to brew tea or heat porridge for breakfast, and chase away the bitter cold and dampness that had crept into the homes like the nocturnal murderer it was.
		Dangers were always present in the mines, but one of the worst was "firedamp", this highly explosive gas was present in all the mines in the Lanarkshire coalfields, and particularly so in Blantyre.
	www.blantyre.biz /blantyredisaster.html (1392 words)

	A Blast from the Past-BlantyrePast
		He was born into a Lanarkshire mining family in 1860, and started his own working life down the pit when he was only 10 years of age.
		He himself had twelve children (one of whom was the author's mother) and, as well as an insight into their working and social activities, the individual, tragic incidents which cost the lives of each of Andra's five sons in adulthood are revealed in great detail.
		Andrew McAnulty Paterson lives in Errol in Perthshire, he has a life-long interest in the history of Blantyre and its people, and would love to hear from descendants of the miners who were involved in the Blantyre Disaster.
	www.blantyrepast.com (421 words)

	Overview of First Blantyre Mining Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Scotland's worst mining disaster took place on 22nd October 1877 when an underground explosion in High Blantyre Pit caused the death of 207 miners.
		Known locally as the 'Fiery Mine' due to the presence of dangerous fire-damp, improper implementation of regulations designed to prevent ignition had brought tragedy to a small community.
		A further disaster followed in 1879, when twenty-eight further miners were killed.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/events/eventfirst103.html (127 words)

	Black Faces & Tackety Boots, Wilma Bolton Lanarkshire Historian
		The suffering inflicted on the mining community by the men of wealth and power was incalculable.
		In the obscene race for money and power, humanity and compassion for their fellow men were pushed aside and the miners and their families were treated with contempt, by the very men who became extremely rich from their labours.
		In essence, the book tells the story of the lives of these wonderful, hard working people and of how they lived, loved and died, in an era when there was very little they could do to control their destiny.
	www.apistos.com /8/credits.html (505 words)

	The Zimbabwe Situation
		All the South African investors who have flooded Zimbabwe to take over mainly mining corporations are interested in doing their own thing and protecting their own turf at the expense of working towards an integrated approach that may benefit everyone in the end.
		After amassing several large-scale commercial farms for themselves, their children and relatives, the top politicians want majority equities in mining houses to be ceded to the state as demanded by Mugabe to pass on to their consortiums at a later stage.
		Officials said another proposal by the technocrats was to exempt specific mining projects needing huge foreign cash injections from being asked to cede equity to the state as originally announced by mines minister Amos Midzi.
	www.zimbabwesituation.com /may28a_2006.html (10773 words)

	BBC News \| Coal Mining Diseases \| Miners songs tell of disease and disasters
		The Blantyre Explosion ballad sung by Ewan MacColl Dur 0' 29"
		While the health of miners who spent their working life underground was an issue, it was always overshadowed by the fear of disasters in the mines.
		Safety in coal mines in the late 20th century bears no relation to the dangers miners have traditionally had to cope with.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/coal_mining_diseases/50040.stm (445 words)

	Blantyre's Ain Website... Bla'antir's Ain Website
		Residents are invited to visit the Blantyre Forum and air their views about whatever they like.
		And, what is probably quite unique, Residents of Blantyre can have their families Memorial posted in In Loving Memory complete with a photograph of the Headstone, for all the world to see.
		Finally, this web site could not exist if it were not for the local businesses and tradesmen who sponsor it through their advertising.
	www.blantyre.biz (473 words)

	Knowhere: Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Shops and Hobbies, Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies
		Blantyre when i was younger was not the "ned housing, jakey packing" place it used to be.
		However after stumbling on this site whilst researching the history of Blantyre, i read theough most of the comments left and it makes me really angry that the degenerates that have left their "opinions" are running the place down...
		Blantyre is actually a good town with jobs a plenty..
	www.knowhere.co.uk /4515_shops.html (1002 words)

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		THE SUBGUARDIANS by George Crisp takes place in a number of locations around the world including New York and Hamilton Mausoleum on the day of the Blantyre mining disaster in 1877.
		Their job is to guard children from an evil character called the Dream Taker - a being in the form of a spider and preys on the dreams of children, and orphans in particular.
		In one part of the book, the Subguardians have to escape a giant cat by stepping into a photograph of Hamilton Mausoleum, which relocates them to the day of the Blantyre mining disaster, with the Dream Taker in hot pursuit.
	www.publishedauthors.net /1georgecrisp/ar.html (364 words)

	Profile
		A profile could focus on environment, or poverty, or urban security, or disaster preparedness, or municipal finance.
		The added value of a participatory process lies in the resulting increased diversity of information sources and in its ability to build a common understanding and validation of not only the information but also the indicators and benchmarks that can be derived from it.
		The Blantyre Environmental Profile prepared in the year 2000 focused on environment-development interactions in the city.
	www.serd.ait.ac.th /ump/html/profile.htm (1682 words)

	Accidents and Disasters in Scotland in the 19th & 20th Centu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William is available to give talks to local and to FHSs on Scottish Family History, on Accidents and Disasters in Scotland, and on his own family tree.
		This website is in tribute to those who have perished in Accidents and Disasters in Scotland in the last two centuries.
		Freeland of Erskine is one of the houses in the Blantyre Estate.
	scottishdisasters.tripod.com (826 words)

	Blantyre - Gurupedia
		Also nearby is Bothwell Castle, dating from the thirteenth century.
		Blantyre is the site for the famous Blantyre Mining Disaster, where 207 miners were killed when a coal mine exploded due to methane gas.
		Christy Moore wrote a song about this disaster.
	www.gurupedia.com /b/bl/blantyre.htm (84 words)

	Country Profile - Malawi
		The Blantyre City Sanitation Master Plan Study was conducted in 1992 as part of the local government development programme and covers four towns: Blantyre, Lilongwe, Zomba and Mzuzu.
		The Blantyre Young Voices Movement together with other youth organisations advocate for children rights including the right to life, names and nationality, education, health and health services, to be protected from torture, to social security, protected from child labour, standard of living, freedom of expressions etc.
		This is a Blantyre youth group which has come up with a wind mill which uses wings in the generation of electricity which will have a positive environmental effect.
	www.un.org /esa/earthsummit/malwi-cp.htm (12405 words)

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