Conditions in the Pits

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I'm most pleased to be able to post an excellent article written by Eve Pryde-Roberts about the life and times of her Scottish Mining ancestors. Click below to read the article	This story I began a couple of years ago and is unfinished. The characters depicted in the story were real people, who were involved in the Blantyre Pit Disaster of 1877 Click below to read the article.
Booklet published on the Mining Community of Bothwellhaugh. by Robert Duncan 1986 Workers Educational Association & Bothwellhaugh Ex-Residents Committee	Interesting letter to the Duchess of Hamilton from the Duke's estate factor, Robert Brown Esq Read how the ruling classes sought to elevate the peasantry :-)