Stanrigg Memorial Park

Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 16 Sep 2009

Sign at an entrance, beside a disused railway. The park is dedicated to the memory of the 19 miners killed in the Stanrigg disaster, July 1918, most of whom lived in and around Greengairs. * Thomas Brady, 18, coal miner, single, Station Row, Whiterigg (body not recovered). * William Brady, 49, coal miner, married, Station Row, Whiterigg (body not recovered) * Robert Campbell, 30 coal miner, married, Low Meadow Head (body not recovered). * William Campbell, 48, coal miner, married, Ford Bridge Cottage, Barblues (body not recovered). * Alexander Gilchrist, 30, coal miner, single, Wattstown (body not recovered). * Leslie McCracken Gilchrist, 15, drawer, single, Wattstown * William Gilchrist, 32, coal miner, single, Wattstown (body not recovered). - 3 brothers * Neil Livingston Thomson Lindsay, 16, drawer, single, Bridge St, Longriggend * Bernard Augustus McAdam, 14, coal miner, single, Back Row, Greengairs * David McNiven, 17, coal miner, single, Browns Building, Greengairs * William Marshall, 31, coal miner, married, McCracken's Place, Greengairs * Alexander Park, 55, coal miner, single, Park Place, Greengairs (body not recovered). * Robert Pollock, 49, coal miner (Army Pensioner), married, Drumbreck, Eastfield (body not recovered). * Robert Pollock, 15, coal miner, single, Drumbreck, Eastfield (body not recovered) * John Queen, 59, coal miner, widower, Brick Row, Darngavil * James Munro Sneddon, 14, coal miner, single, Back Row, Greengairs * John Sneddon, 31, coal miner, married, McCrackens Place, Greengairs (body not recovered). * George Templeton, 37, coal miner, married, Low Meadow Head * William Douglas Williamson, 27, coal miner, married, Arthur's Land, Plains (body not recovered). Names and format from http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/45.html

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