Baton Colliery

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	Baton Colliery	Index	Baton Colliery

Location:	Shotts 11½ miles [18 km] NNW of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS866615, 55° 50' 0" N, 3° 48' 39" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Morningside Coal Co.
	Baton Collieries Ltd.
	Shotts Iron Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1920 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Steam.
	1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (100,000 tons)
Employment:	1894 - 113 (97 below, 16 surface)
	1896 - 71 (56 below, 15 surface)
	1900 - 53 (42 below, 11 surface)
	1905 - 4 [Pumping]
	1910 - 10
	1915 - 213 (177 below, 36 surface)
	1920 - 234 (184 below, 50 surface)
	1923 - 234 (184 below, 50 surface)
	1933 - 610 (500 below, 110 surface)
	1940 - 600 (480 below, 120 surface)
	1947 - 304 (239 below, 65 surface)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Pumping Pit and washery
	1915 - Laigh
	1920 - Laigh, Smithy
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

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Brunton, Andrew, 22 Jul 1895, 2.15 a.m., aged 43, Miner, Fall of stone

Docherty, Thomas, 03 Jan 1881, Screenman, Jammed between two empty waggons at screens

McIntyre, Thomas, 11 May 1911, aged 34, Winding Engineman, He tried to start a single cylinder pumping engine which had stopped on centres by levering one of the spokes of the flywheel down. The engine started and a spoke crushed him

3 names found

1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Scotland District (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
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
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website