	Bailliesmuir Colliery	Index	Bailliesmuir Colliery

Bailliesmuir Colliery

Location:	Newmains 9 miles [14 km] NNW of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS826564, 55° 47' 15" N, 3° 52' 17" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Coltness Iron Co., Ltd.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1910 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1920 - Coal: Gas, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 61 (53 below, 8 surface)
	1896 - 65 (56 below, 9 surface)
	1905 - 147 (127 below, 20 surface)
	1910 - 195 (169 below, 26 surface)
	1915 - 103 (85 below, 18 surface)
	1920 - 137 (94 below, 43 surface)
	1923 - 205 (183 below, 22 surface)
	1933 - 196 (170 below, 26 surface)
	1937 - 196 (170 below, 26 surface)
	1940 - 196 (170 below, 26 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Mid Drumgray
	1910 - Lower Drumgray, Mid Drumgray
	1915 - Lower Drumgray, Mid Drumgray
	1920 - Lower Drumgray, Mid Drumgray
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!

						Allison, Thomas, 07 Apr 1922, 1.30 p.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 56, Miner, He was passing along the working face when he was killed by a piece of stone, 6ft by 2ft by 7in which fell from between two lypes in the roof. The piece of stone was entirely unsupported.
						Allison, William, 18 Feb 1903, aged 36, Miner, Deceased was holing when a piece of face stone fell upon him
						Cullen, James, 11 Sep 1905, (accident: 07 Sep 1905), aged 16, Miner, Deceased was at the road head, when the face coal fell, knocking out a prop, and causing the roof to fall on him. He died four days afterwards from his injury
						Finlayson, Matthew, 09 Jan 1913, aged 17, Miner, He was engaged in filling a tub when a piece of the rock roof, 13 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet, in the shape of a truncated prism fell, without warning, from above several props, and striking him on the head killed him instantly
						Rafferty, Patrick, 26 Aug 1909, aged 41, Brusher, Deceased and his neighbour lighted three shots, and retired to a safe place. When explosions ceased the former declared that all the shots had gone off and both proceeded back towards the face, and when within 15 yards of the shot holes another explosion occurred, and deceased was killed by the flying debris. One of the shots had "hung fire," as some considerable time elapsed after the first explosions until the fatal one

						5 names found

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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
1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Robert McLaren, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Robert McLaren, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177), 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
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
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