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Bank Colliery |
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Bank Colliery |
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Bank Colliery
| Location: |
New Cumnock
17½ miles [28 km] ESE of Ayr
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 71 Lanark and Upper Nithsdale) NS600115, 55° 22' 39" N, 4° 12' 35" W |
| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
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| Owners: |
New Bank Coal Co. |
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1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) |
| Output: |
1855 - Coal. |
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1894 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1896 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1900 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1905 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. |
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1910 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
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1915 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. |
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1920 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. |
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1947 - Coal: Household, Industrial. (115,000 tons) |
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1954 - Nos. 1 and 6 - Coal: Household, Industrial. |
| Employment: |
1894 - 198 (151 below, 47 surface) |
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1896 - 187 (140 below, 47 surface) |
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1900 - 192 (137 below, 55 surface) |
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1905 - 233 (175 below, 58 surface) |
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1910 - 397 (335 below, 62 surface) |
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1915 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 381 (326 below, 55 surface) |
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1920 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 571 (396 below, 175 surface) |
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1923 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 601 (407 below, 194 surface) |
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1933 - No. 6 - 198 (173 below, 25 surface) |
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1933 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 247 (217 below, 30 surface) |
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1940 - No. 6 - 233 (200 below, 33 surface) |
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1940 - Nos. 1, 2 and 6 - 107 (75 below, 32 surface) |
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1947 - 262 (216 below, 46 surface) |
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1954 - Nos. 1 and 6 - 400 (315 below, 85 surface) |
| Seams Worked: |
1910 - Eight Feet, Five Feet, Four Feet, Musselband, Three Feet |
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1915 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Eight Feet, Four Feet, Three Feet, Upper Two Feet [27/5/15. Have stopped working coal in No. 5 mine meantime. Plan to H.O. 13/8/15] |
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1920 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Diamond, Eight Feet, Five Feet, Four Feet, Three Feet, Two Feet, Upper |
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1954 - Nos. 1 and 6 - Black Band, Lower Two Feet, Musselband, Upper Two Feet |
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 Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Bank Colliery |
| 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
No names found.
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Bank Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Bank Colliery
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
- 1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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
- 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
- 1933 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
- 1940 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
- 1947 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
- 1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
- Mineral Statistics for 1855 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
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