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Burnockhill Colliery
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| Location: | Ochiltree 10½ miles [17 km] ESE of Ayr |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 70 Ayr, Kilmarnock and Troon) NS502174, 55° 25' 40" N, 4° 22' 2" W |
| Opened: | 1905 |
| Closed: | 1925 |
| Owners: | William Baird and Co., Ltd. |
| Output: | 1905 - Coal: Household. |
| 1910 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1915 - Coal: Household. | |
| 1920 - Coal: Household. | |
| Employment: | 1905 - 28 (18 below, 10 surface) [Sinking] |
| 1910 - 124 (104 below, 20 surface) | |
| 1915 - 135 (107 below, 28 surface) | |
| 1920 - 183 (154 below, 29 surface) | |
| 1923 - 147 (125 below, 22 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1910 - Main |
| 1915 - Main | |
| 1920 - Ell, Main | |
| Notes: | Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete! |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Blanco, Jose, 20 Jan 1906, aged 25, Labourer, He opened the gate at the pitmouth, took a hutch off the cage, signalled the cage down, and then pushed an empty hutch into the open shaft and fell after it | |||||
| Crawford, James, 04 May 1911, aged 20, Assistant Bottomer, He attempted to cross the bottom of the pit through the cage after it had been signalled away. He was caught and crushed between the cage and the side of the shaft | |||||
| Rae, James, 06 Oct 1910, aged 50, Bottomer, The deceased was taking up some slack in a signal wire, by which signals were transmitted by him to the winding engineman, and to do this, it was necessary to be in the shaft, and while doing so he, without being aware of the fact, gave a signal to the engineman and the cage was lowered on the top of and crushed him very severely. There were pumps working in the shaft and the noise made by them probably prevented his hearing the approach of the cage | |||||
| Thomson, William, 14 May 1908, 8.30 a.m., aged 27, Roadsman, When entering a discontinued place along with the fireman his naked light ignited gas. The fireman had not previously made an inspection of the place | |||||
| 4 names found | ||||||
If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.
Those names marked with ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
also include a photograph of the deceased.
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next to the name to see the web page.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Burnockhill Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Burnockhill Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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
- 1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), 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
- 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
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