	Burngrange (Oil Shale)	Index	Burngrange (Oil Shale)

Burngrange (Oil Shale)

Location:	West Calder 14 miles [23 km] NNE of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NT011625, 55° 50' 44" N, 3° 34' 47" W
Opened:	1936
Closed:	1958
Pits:	No. 1 Shaft
	No. 2 Shaft
Owners:	1936 - Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Co., Ltd.
Output:	1905 - Oil Shale.
	1910 - Oil shale.
	1950 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Oil Shale.
	1954 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Oil Shale.
Employment:	1905 - 73 (60 below, 13 surface)
	1910 - 50 (38 below, 12 surface)
	1940 - 213 (176 below, 37 surface)
	1950 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 289 (242 below, 47 surface)
	1954 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 300 (250 below, 50 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Broxburn
	1910 - Broxburn
	1950 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Middle Dunnet
	1954 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Middle Dunnet
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

10th

Jan

1947

Explosion, firedamp and fire, ignition caused by flame of open acetylene cap lamp, 15 lives lost (Show Names)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Carroll, David, 10 Jan 1947, aged 36, Miner's Drawer [More information ...]
						Carroll, William, 10 Jan 1947, aged 31, Miner's Drawer [More information ...]
						Cowie, Henry, 10 Jan 1947, aged 36, Miner's Drawer [More information ...]
						Easton, George, 10 Jan 1947, aged 53, Oncost worker [More information ...]
						Fairley, John, 10 Jan 1947, aged 20, Miner's Drawer [More information ...]
						Findlay, William, 10 Jan 1947, aged 56, Oncost worker [More information ...]
						Gaughan, Anthony, 10 Jan 1947, aged 45, Miner [More information ...]
						Greenock, William, 10 Jan 1947, aged 51, Miner [More information ...]
						Heggie, Thomas, 10 Jan 1947, aged 27, Miner [More information ...]
						Lightbody, John, 10 Jan 1947, aged 41, Miner [More information ...]
						McAuley, James, 10 Jan 1947, aged 59, Miner [More information ...]
						McGarty, John, 10 Jan 1947, aged 30, Miner's Drawer [More information ...]
						Muir, David, 10 Jan 1947, aged 25, Miner's Drawer [More information ...]
						Pake, Samuel, 10 Jan 1947, aged 34, Miner's Drawer [More information ...]
						Ritchie, William, 10 Jan 1947, aged 39, Miner [More information ...]

						15 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian