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Auchenbegg Colliery
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| Location: | Coalburn 7½ miles [12 km] SW of Lanark |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 71 Lanark and Upper Nithsdale) NS799359, 55° 36' 10" N, 3° 54' 21" W |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | |
| Owners: | Waddell and Sons |
| Output: | 1910 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. |
| 1915 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1920 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1920 - Mine - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1920 - No. 3 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1905 - 31 (19 below, 12 surface) [Sinking] |
| 1910 - 357 (312 below, 45 surface) | |
| 1915 - 345 (323 below, 22 surface) | |
| 1920 - 313 (289 below, 24 surface) | |
| 1920 - Mine - 16 (14 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1920 - No. 3 - 18 (16 below, 2 surface) | |
| 1923 - 277 (246 below, 31 surface) | |
| 1923 - Big Bridge - 2 | |
| 1923 - No. 3 - 50 | |
| Seams Worked: | 1910 - Dross, Ell, Six Feet, Splint |
| 1915 - Ell, Six Feet, Splint | |
| 1920 - Ell, Six Feet, Smithy, Splint | |
| 1920 - Mine - Nine Feet | |
| 1920 - No. 3 - Lower Splint | |
| Notes: | Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete! |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Duffy, John, 20 Dec 1909, aged 48, Miner, Fall of coal at coal face, in a close place in stoop and room working | |||||
| Johnstone, Walter, snr., 24 Nov 1913, aged 40, Miner, He was holing at the face when some roof coal suddenly fell over the sprags and fatally crushed him | |||||
| Wilson, Samuel, 30 Oct 1913, (accident: 29 Oct 1913), aged 32, Fireman, Deceased was illegally distributing detonators to the miners at the pit bottom in the Six Feet seam. He started with a box containing 100 detonators, and when the accident occurred there was one man who had not received them. It is probable 20 detonators remained in the box, when, by some means, probably a spark from his naked light which he had on his cap, they exploded and very seriously injured him. He died the following day. Four officials and a miner who were close by when the explosion occurred were slightly injured | |||||
| 3 names found | ||||||
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Auchenbegg Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Auchenbegg Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177), West Scotland District (No. 2) by Thomas H. Mottram, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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
- 1920 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- OS Grid Reference from Mindat website
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