Blairmuckhill Colliery

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	Blairmuckhill Colliery	Index	Blairmuckhill Colliery

Location:	Harthill 13½ miles [21 km] N of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS889649, 55° 51' 53" N, 3° 46' 28" W
Opened:	1910
Closed:	1959
Owners:	A. and G. Anderson
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1920 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
	1947 - Coal: Anthracite, Gas, Household, Manufacturing. (80,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1905 - 140 (112 below, 28 surface)
	1910 - 283 (216 below, 67 surface)
	1915 - 265 (207 below, 58 surface)
	1920 - 394 (315 below, 79 surface)
	1923 - 284 (228 below, 56 surface)
	1933 - 255 (180 below, 75 surface)
	1937 - 345 (240 below, 105 surface)
	1940 - 350 (255 below, 95 surface)
	1947 - 349 (249 below, 100 surface)
	1954 - 322 (241 below, 81 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Upper Drumgray
	1910 - Lower Drumgray, Mill Coal
	1915 - Ball, Lower Drumgray, Mill Coal
	1920 - Ball, Lower Drumgray, Main, Mill Coal
	1954 - Main, Mill
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

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Blair, Nathaniel, 03 Apr 1906, aged 20, Labourer, A boiler was being raised into position by screw jacks placed under the boiler and inside the seat, and while doing so it tilted slightly ; deceased, who was working one of the jacks, made a rush at an opening to get outside, and was fatally crushed between the boiler and side of brickwall of seat. Had he remained where he was he was perfectly safe

Graham, David, 31 Mar 1914, aged 35, Repairer, Deceased was working at the top end of a coal-cutting machine run, setting timber to allow the coal cutter to pass. A place is driven in advance of the line of machine face to facilitate the starting of the machine on a new cut, and when this place had been brushed a part of the side was left overhanging. Graham was setting timber under this when it fell away from a lype and caught him. The brushers in a former shift ought either to have taken this overhanging stone down or set a bar to support it

Hilditch, Thomas, 06 Mar 1936, [details unknown]

Kennedy, Samuel, 01 Sep 1913, fireman, He was waiting at the face for a coal-cutter to finish its cut, when a stone fell from the roof, killing him on the spot

4 names found

1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), 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
1913 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 7439), Scotland Division (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1914 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 8023)), 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
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
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