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Blantyre Explosion

Date 1956
Track ID 30109
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1956.113.B1

Original Tape ID

SA1956.113

Summary

The singer meets a sad girl on the banks of the Clyde and she tells him her fiancé has been killed in a mine explosion at High Blantyre.

Charlotte Higgins heard the travelling people sing this song a long time ago.

Item Notes

5 verses. A full version of this old mining song, about an explosion at Dixon's mine in Blantyre on the 22nd of October 1877. Estimates of the number of miners killed vary, with the song putting it at 120 but other sources putting it at over 200.

Recording Location

County - Perthshire

Parish - Blairgowrie

Item Location

County - Lanarkshire

Parish - Blantyre

Village/Place - Blantyre

Language

Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R1014 LQ35

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good