	Balquhatstone Colliery	Index	Balquhatstone Colliery

Balquhatstone Colliery

Location:	Slamannan 15 miles [24 km] SSE of Stirling
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS854713, 55° 55' 18" N, 3° 50' 0" W
Opened:
Closed:
Output:	1855 - Coal.
	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 377 (322 below, 55 surface)
	1896 - 306 (253 below, 53 surface)
	1900 - 117 (109 below, 8 surface)
	1905 - 58 (38 below, 20 surface) [Abandoned]
Seams Worked:	1905 - Coxrod, Splint, Virtuewell [Abandoned]
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!

						Baird, J., 30 Nov 1867, aged 40, Collier, Fell down pit. He thought the engineman was going too quick and jumped from the cage at the surface and fell into the pit. Other 2 men were on the time and got off unhurt. There had been no cause for alarm
						Baxter, Andrew, 05 Dec 1871, aged 20, Collier, Fall of stone at face
						Binnie, Thomas, 21 Apr 1891, 11.30 a.m., aged 23, Collier, Fall of roof
						Forbes, Robert, 17 Sep 1874, aged 35, Joiner, Jammed between the buffers of two wagons while shifting them by hand
						Fotheringham, Thomas, 15 Jan 1895, 12.30 p.m., aged 67, Bottomer, Struck by cage or material falling down shaft
						Gairdner, Alexander, 11 Sep 1863, aged 29, Collier, A piece of sandstone roof of the Cox-rod coal fell upon him at his wall-face
						McMillan, Alexander, 29 Mar 1897, aged 52, Miner, Deceased worked with his son in a longwall place which was stripping a downthrow. While near the fault shovelling out coal, a stone, estimated to weigh about a ton, dropped from between two lypes and killed him instantly
						McPherson, Alexander, 29 May 1894, 8.30 a.m., aged 29, Miner, Fall of stone
						Meek, William, 18 Mar 1862, Collier, Fall of roof
						Morgan, Charles, 30 Oct 1869, aged 22, Collier, Fall off rope which he was attempting to slide down
						Paterson, Robert, 15 Jan 1868, aged 35, Miner, While he was ascending the pit, the pinion wheel of the engine broke and the descending cage being heaviest, he was carried to the pulleys, and fell back into the pit. Brake on fly wheel
						Renton, William, 31 Dec 1878, aged 19, Screenman, Crushed between wagons at the screens
						Shields, James, 13 Apr 1886, aged 18, Bogieman, Fell in front of bogie

						13 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1863 Mines Inspectors Report, by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1868 Mines Inspectors Report, East Scotland District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1869 Mines Inspectors Report (C 124), East Scotland District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321), 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
1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), East Scotland District (No. 1) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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.