	Auchinreoch Colliery	Index	Auchinreoch Colliery

Auchinreoch Colliery

Location:	Kilsyth 9 miles [14 km] NE of Glasgow
Map Ref:	(Sheet 64 Glasgow) NS674761, 55° 57' 38" N, 4° 7' 22" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	William Baird and Co., Ltd.
Output:	1900 - Coal.
	1905 - Coal: Coking.
	1910 - Coal: Coking.
	1915 - Coal: Coking.
	1920 - Coal: Coking.
Employment:	1900 - 35 (12 below, 23 surface) [Sinking]
	1905 - 253 (166 below, 87 surface)
	1910 - 359 (284 below, 75 surface)
	1915 - 286 (220 below, 66 surface)
	1920 - 342 (251 below, 91 surface)
	1923 - 352 (275 below, 77 surface)
	1937 - 10 (5 below, 5 surface) [presently idle]
Seams Worked:	1910 - Coking, Haughrig
	1915 - Coking, Haughrig
	1920 - Coking, Haughrigg, Wee
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None Found

Names of those killed at this colliery

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

						Jackson, Samuel, 25 Jun 1909, aged 50, Miner, In passing stationary race of hutches on way to bottom, the race started and caught him
						McGhee, Jeannie, 28 Dec 1905, aged 19, Stone picker, For some unknown reason, she went over a fence and got caught by the blades of a dross conveyor
						Shaw, James, 24 Jan 1913, (accident: 16 Jan 1913), aged 64, Brakesman, He was employed at the bottom of a short cousie, and apparently signalled for the rake to be run without attaching the empty hutches, and, in consequence, the full hutches ran away. He was found immediately after on the ground suffering from bruises; these were considered slight, but he died from lung complications on the 24th January
						Stevenson, William, 03 Dec 1913, aged 30, Miner, He was walking up a long dook at the end of his shift when he was overtaken and run over by the rake which was drawn by a main rope. He ran in front of it and passed a manhole he could easily have got into. The manholes were of good size but were not whitewashed
						Wilson, Charles, 27 Oct 1906, aged 23, Drawer, While taking a full hutch down a heading he was run into by a runaway hutch, of which another drawer lost control, owing to a snibble coming out

						5 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1937 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