	Blackrigg Colliery	Index	Blackrigg Colliery

Blackrigg Colliery

Location:	15 miles [24 km] N of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS914675, 55° 53' 18" N, 3° 44' 12" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	United Collieries Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone. Fireclay.
	1910 - No. 1 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone. Fireclay.
	1910 - No. 3 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - No. 1 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone. Fireclay.
	1915 - No. 3 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1920 - No. 1 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
	1920 - No. 3 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
	1947 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (80,000 tons)
	1954 - Nos. 1 and 3 - Coal: Steam. Blaes.
Employment:	1905 - 146 (113 below, 33 surface)
	1910 - No. 1 - 201 (166 below, 35 surface)
	1910 - No. 3 - 350 (290 below, 60 surface)
	1915 - No. 1 - 200 (156 below, 44 surface)
	1915 - No. 3 - 280 (219 below, 61 surface)
	1920 - No. 1 - 235 (184 below, 51 surface)
	1920 - No. 3 - 241 (186 below, 55 surface)
	1923 - No. 1 - 267 (216 below, 51 surface)
	1923 - No. 3 - 247 (192 below, 55 surface)
	1933 - Nos. 1 and 3 - 400 (320 below, 80 surface)
	1940 - Nos. 1 and 3 - 352 (292 below, 60 surface)
	1947 - 240 (187 below, 53 surface)
	1954 - Nos. 1 and 3 - 310 (250 below, 60 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Ball, Main
	1910 - No. 1 - Ball, Main, Mill
	1910 - No. 3 - Main
	1915 - No. 1 - Ball, Main, Mill
	1915 - No. 3 - Ball, Main
	1920 - No. 1 - Ball, Colinburn, Main, Mill, Wee
	1920 - No. 3 - Ball, Colinburn, Main
	1954 - Nos. 1 and 3 - Colinburn
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!

						Berresford, Thomas, 24 Feb 1911, aged 16, Miner's Drawer, He was filling a hutch and was in a bent position when a piece of fireclay fell off the front of the brushing and knocked him down ; as he was falling a further fall took place and caught him on the head fatally injuring him
						Leckie, Alexander, 23 Apr 1912, aged 44, Miner, As he pulled down a piece of coal, which was holed, two tons of clay from the roof fell upon him and killed him instantaneously. Smooth lypes, previously unseen, were found on each side of the clay which fell
						Love, Frank, 29 Oct 1922, (accident: 15 Mar 1922, 8.30 p.m., 6th hour of shift), aged 53, Miner, He was injured by a small fall of roof while withdrawing a brushing prop. He died on 29th October, though it is not clear that his death was directly due to the injuries received.
						Marshall, John, 22 Mar 1911, aged 21, Miner's Drawer, He was leaning over the top of a tub which he was filling when a large stone fell from the roof immediately above, crushed him against the small coal in the tub, and suffocated him
						McGoldrich, John, 14 Oct 1907, aged 24, Labourer, Deceased was apparently trying to move a waggon partly loaded against a gradient of 1 in 48, by means of a crowbar on the wheel, when it moved back and by some means he fell on the rail and the last wheel rested on his body
						McKenzie, William McFarlane, 04 Mar 1910, aged 24, Motor Attendant, He took hold of a cable where there happened to be a joint which was insulated by waterproof tape only, close to his motor. One of his mates offered to pull him off, but he refused to allow him, and before help could be got he was insensible, and never regained consciousness. There was no one in the neighbourhood who even knew how to switch the current off [More information ...]
						O'Shea, Michael, 06 Mar 1908, aged 30, Sinker, Deceased was standing on a scaffold in the shaft, guiding a pipe to put it in position when it struck the scaffold and knocked him off, and he fell 70 feet where he was caught by some fixed pump rods

						7 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Robert McLaren, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Robert McLaren, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676), Scotland District (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Scotland District (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1912 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6983), 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
1922 Mines Inspectors Report
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
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website