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Beoch Colliery
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| Location: | 13½ miles [22 km] SE of Ayr |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 70 Ayr, Kilmarnock and Troon) NS519091, 55° 21' 13" N, 4° 20' 10" W |
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| Owners: | Dalmellington Iron Co. |
| Bairds and Dalmellington Ltd. | |
| 1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) | |
| Output: | 1855 - Coal. |
| 1894 - Coal: Manufacturing. | |
| 1896 - Coal: Manufacturing. | |
| 1900 - Coal: Manufacturing. | |
| 1905 - Coal: Manufacturing. | |
| 1910 - Coal: Manufacturing. | |
| 1915 - No. 3 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. | |
| 1920 - No. 3 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing. | |
| 1947 - Nos. 3 and 4 - Coal: Gas, Household, Industrial. (127,000 tons) | |
| 1954 - Nos. 3 and 4 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing. | |
| Employment: | 1894 - 9 (6 below, 3 surface) |
| 1896 - 10 (9 below, 1 surface) | |
| 1900 - 14 (11 below, 3 surface) | |
| 1905 - 17 (12 below, 5 surface) | |
| 1910 - 19 (15 below, 4 surface) | |
| 1915 - No. 3 - 43 (35 below, 8 surface) | |
| 1920 - No. 3 - 42 (31 below, 11 surface) | |
| 1923 - 310 (260 below, 50 surface) | |
| 1923 - No. 3 - 34 (22 below, 12 surface) | |
| 1933 - 150 (120 below, 30 surface) | |
| 1937 - No. 3 - 170 (125 below, 45 surface) | |
| 1940 - No. 3 - 172 (126 below, 46 surface) | |
| 1940 - No. 4 - 145 (121 below, 24 surface) | |
| 1947 - Nos. 3 and 4 - 369 (283 below, 86 surface) | |
| 1954 - Nos. 3 and 4 - 386 (314 below, 72 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1910 - High, Low Pennyvenie, Splint |
| 1915 - No. 3 - High Coal | |
| 1920 - No. 3 - High, Splint | |
| 1954 - Nos. 3 and 4 - High Splint, Low | |
| 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
No names found.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Beoch Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Beoch Colliery
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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
- 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
- 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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