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Auchingeich Colliery
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| Location: | Lenzie 7½ miles [12 km] ENE of Glasgow |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 64 Glasgow) NS685711, 55° 54' 55" N, 4° 6' 13" W |
| Opened: | |
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| Owners: | James Nimmo and Co., Ltd. |
| Output: | 1905 - Coal. |
| 1910 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing. | |
| 1915 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing. | |
| 1920 - Coal: Coking, Manufacturing. | |
| Employment: | 1905 - 42 (24 below, 18 surface) [Sinking] |
| 1910 - 834 (643 below, 191 surface) | |
| 1915 - 672 (483 below, 189 surface) | |
| 1920 - 817 (646 below, 171 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1910 - Coking, Mair (Meiklehill) |
| 1915 - Coking, Main (Meiklehill) | |
| 1920 - Coking, Main (Meiklehill) | |
| 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!
 | Addie, Robert, 17 May 1907, aged 55, Miner, Fall of roof at working face, owing to want of propping. No notice as to the specified distance for propping was posted up | |||||
| Cogger, Terrence, 19 Nov 1907, aged 30, Sinker, A bolt, suspending to a rope a scaffold on which he was perched, broke, leaving him suspended to the rope. Being unable to hold on he dropped down the shaft | |||||
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If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Auchingeich Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Auchingeich Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 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
- 1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1920 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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