Mavis Valley, a mining village by the Forth & Clyde Canal, created in the 1850s to provide a workforce for nearby mines that later became the Cadder Pits, and demolished in 1955.
Miners from over 200 households in the village worked underground in Cadder Pits No.15 and No.17 to provide coal and ironstone, or iron ore, for the Carron Iron Works, the coal being sent from the mines along the canal.
But in 1913 disaster struck when fire broke out in Cadder Pit No.15. Of the 26 miners working underground at the time, 22 died, overcome by fumes, 11 Catholics and 11 Protestants.
Among the dead were three brothers who lived at 193 Mavis Valley.
A memorial stone was erected in St. Kentigern's RC Cemetery at Lambhill to remember the 11 Catholic miners who lost their lives. Years later, another memorial stone was erected at Cadder Cemetery to remember the 11 Protestant miners who died. But there was no one memorial to all 22 men who were killed in the Cadder Pit Disaster. These men worked together, and they died together.
In 2013, one hundred years after the disaster, a memorial stone listing all 22 miners was finally erected beside the library in Bishopbriggs.
In this video I visit the site of Mavis Valley to see if anything is left.