Pit, Ponies, People and Stories
The Pits, Ponies, People and Stories project on mining in South Lanarkshire is led by South Lanarkshire Council; an outline of the project is given
on their
website..
More on progress of the project can be found on their
Facebook page.
Two members of the Jim Hamilton Heritage Society of Coalburn, Peter McLeish, Chairman and Gilbert Dobbie, Vice-Chairman, have been actively involved in this project and can be seen in the first video below. Pupils of Coalburn Primary School were amongst the South Lanarkshire school pupils who put in work for this project.
The purpose of this page is to provide links for this project and their productions
Videos
These are all on Youtube:-
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel - Life in the mines and mining communities in the Coalburn area.
- Pits, Ponies, People and Stories Documentary - about the Project
- Pits, Ponies, people and Stories - more on the project with Gilbert Dobbie talking to school classes about mining
- Shaft 9 - a ghost story
- No moans on the south side - the Blantyre mining disaster in 1877
- On that day - a re-enactment of the effect of a mining accident on a mining community
- Clydesdale Dads Group - the story of the Clydesdale Dads Group who learned new skills to take part in the production of the films in this series.
Bob McDonald (left) and Colin Findlay (right) of the "Pits, Ponies, People and Stories" project on the 21st September 2016, when they gave an entertaining talk to the Society on Mining in South Lanarkshire. They can be seen with the book that contains stories, poems and drawings by school children.