	Broomrigg Colliery	Index	Broomrigg Colliery

Broomrigg Colliery

Location:	Bonnybridge 9 miles [14 km] S of Stirling
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS811800, 55° 59' 56" N, 3° 54' 20" W
Opened:
Closed:	Jul 1930
Pits:	No. 2 Pit
	No. 3 Pit, locn: (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS806799
Owners:	Banknock Coal Co.
	Banknock Coal Co., Ltd.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam.
	1910 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam.
	1915 - Nos. 2, 3 and Knowhead - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1920 - Nos. 2, 3 and Knowhead - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
Employment:	1894 - 142 (120 below, 22 surface)
	1900 - 304 (249 below, 55 surface)
	1905 - 374 (317 below, 57 surface)
	1910 - 477 (381 below, 96 surface)
	1915 - Nos. 2, 3 and Knowhead - 457 (398 below, 59 surface)
	1920 - Nos. 2, 3 and Knowhead - 641 (484 below, 157 surface)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Jewel, Main, Splint, Upper Drumgray, Virtuewell
	1915 - Nos. 2, 3 and Knowhead - Jewel, Main, Splint, Upper Drumgray, Virtuewell
	1920 - Nos. 2, 3 and Knowhead - Jewel, Main, Mid, Upper and Lower Drumgray, Splint, Virtuewell
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!

						Hamilton, John, 06 Sep 1922, 12.15 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 39, Miner, Deceased was sitting inside a line of timber pinching down holed coal in a narrow place which had just started in solid coal next to an old waste. A large stone fell on him, pinned him down and suffocated him.
						Howden, John, 25 Dec 1906, aged 60, Miner, Fall of roof in working place, which was not propped as required by the rules
						Lawrie, Archibald, 21 Sep 1910, aged 18, Drawer, A hutch ran too quickly down a heading and displaced a prop put in to stop a hutch from going below the level was upset. The deceased and another man refilled the hutch and were pushing it when the roof fell, and part of it caught Lawrie on the back
						Lees, James, 25 Feb 1907, aged 45, Fireman, When descending the shaft the cage left the slides and he was fatally injured
						McPhee, James, 21 Oct 1899, aged 51, Miner, Fall of roof at working place. The stone was not propped, although it fell from between two parallel lipes which previously were exposed to view, and a cross lipe
						Neil, John, 09 Sep 1905, aged 58, Miner, Fall of coal while holing
						Robertson, Thomas, 08 Jan 1910, aged 48, Screenman, When shifting a belt on a pulley his waistcoat was caught by a gland on a revolving shaft
						Rutherford, Robert, 18 Aug 1904, aged 50, Miner, A shot of gunpowder from an adjacent place blew through on him, he having failed to stand clear after being warned to do so
						Thompson, Alexander, 01 Apr 1910, aged 45, Roadsman, Fatally injured by a runaway hutch on a rope-haulage road
						Waugh, James, 09 Sep 1913, aged 34, Fireman, When laying out the haulage rope of an electrically driven coal cutter the current was switched on to the machine, and through defective insulation the machine became alive. The earthing system to some water pipes was not sufficient to deal with the leakage, and deceased was killed on the spot. Several other men also received shocks
						Waugh, Robert, snr., 27 May 1911, aged 59, Miner, A stone fell from between two slips or joints in the roof and killed him

						11 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, 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), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, 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
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