	Auchenharvie Colliery	Index	Auchenharvie Colliery

Auchenharvie Colliery

Location:	Stevenston 11 miles [17 km] W of Kilmarnock
Map Ref:	(Sheet 70 Ayr, Kilmarnock and Troon) NS256413, 55° 38' 2" N, 4° 46' 15" W
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Closed:
Owners:	Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co.
	Glengarnock Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1915 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
Employment:	1894 - 379 (374 below, 5 surface)
	1896 - 457 (383 below, 74 surface)
	1900 - 737 (666 below, 71 surface)
	1905 - 731 (653 below, 78 surface)
	1910 - 600 (555 below, 45 surface)
	1915 - 225 (201 below, 24 surface)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Five Quarter, Ladyha', Parrot, Turf, Wee
	1915 - Five Quarter, Lambie, Main
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

2nd

Aug

1895

Inrush of water from old workings, 9 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Duffin, Michael, 27 Mar 1903, aged 25, Shot firer, He failed to take proper shelter while firing a shot of saxonite and carbonite by electricity, and was struck by a projected stone
						Fitzcharles, John, 25 Feb 1870, aged 37, Fireman, Fall of roof while engaged taking a part of it down
						Gallacher, Duncan, 02 Aug 1895, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 30, Inrush of water from old workings [More information ...]
						Glauchan, Henry, 02 Aug 1895, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 19, Inrush of water from old workings [More information ...]
						Glauchan, James, 02 Aug 1895, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 22, Inrush of water from old workings [More information ...]
						Glauchan, John, 02 Aug 1895, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 30, Inrush of water from old workings [More information ...]
						Glauchan, William, 02 Aug 1895, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 28, Inrush of water from old workings [More information ...]
						Hamilton, William, 23 Jun 1897, aged 24, Miner, Fall of stone from the side of a dook
						Harris, Robert, 23 Mar 1910, aged 23, Miner, Fall of roof from an unseen joint and a lipe while holing at face
						Higgins, John, 16 Apr 1902, aged 31, Brusher, When working at the face a runaway empty hutch ran down and caught him
						McConn, Robert, 02 Aug 1895, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 17, Inrush of water from old workings [More information ...]
						McGee, John, 02 Aug 1895, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 13, Inrush of water from old workings [More information ...]
						McGhee, Francis, 22 Oct 1913, aged 30, Shaftsman, Deceased was descending a pumping shaft with another man, and was standing on the edge of the kettle; on moving round the kettle edge to get better to the signal wire he slipped, fell to the bottom and was killed
						McIntyre, William, 11 Apr 1900, aged 40, Miner, Run over by runaway hutches on a self-acting incline when travelling up to his working place
						Mullen, James, 02 Aug 1895, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 19, Inrush of water from old workings [More information ...]
						Mullen, Peter, 02 Aug 1895, 3 p.m., 9th hour of shift, aged 12, Inrush of water from old workings [More information ...]
						Sproull, John, 22 May 1895, 7 a.m., aged 17, Drawer, Run over by a hutch on a heading. Supposed to have been drawing in front of it
						Steel, Wilson, 09 Sep 1907, aged 14, Drawer, When coupling a tail haulage rope to a hutch the hutch was started by the main race of hutches catching the hook at the top end of the tail rope, and he was run over
						Weir, Edward, 13 Dec 1894, 6.30 a.m., aged 48, Miner, Fall of roof at working face

						19 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676), Scotland District (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1913 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 7439), Scotland Division (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website