Blantyre Explosion
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
1956
Track ID
30109
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1956.113.B1
Original Tape ID
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
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good