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Situated on Westerpark Avenue is a staue of a miner, dedicated to the miners who lost their lives in the Blantyre mining disaster, which occurred on the morning of 22 October 1877. Pits No. 2 and No. 3 of William Dixon’s Blantyre Colliery were the site of an explosion which killed 218 miners, the youngest being a boy of 11. The accident left 106 widows and 300 fatherless children.
There are other memorials in Blantyre to commemorate this disaster, including the Miner’s Stone at the Blantyre Miners Welfare on Calder Street, a monument in Dalbeth Cemetery off Glasgow’s London Road and a monument in with a list of names in Blantyre Cemetery.
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