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Blackston Colliery
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| Location: | Avonbridge 13½ miles [22 km] SW of Dunfermline |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS916736, 55° 56' 36" N, 3° 44' 8" W |
| Opened: | |
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| Owners: | James Nimmo and Co., Ltd. |
| Output: | 1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
| 1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1920 - Coal: Anthracite, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1894 - 137 (118 below, 19 surface) |
| 1896 - 191 (172 below, 19 surface) | |
| 1900 - 258 (226 below, 32 surface) | |
| 1910 - 17 (12 below, 5 surface) [Pumping Pit] | |
| 1920 - 36 (20 below, 16 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1910 - Main [Pumping Pit] |
| 1920 - Ball, Mill |
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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!
 | Main, John, 14 Aug 1908, aged 55, Pumping Engine-man, Deceased was running two empty trucks down a steep railway, and to hold down the brake he used a pit prop 3 ft. 6 ins. long, as he passed a dross bing on side of railway the prop caught it, and he was thrown amongst the wheels | |||||
| Pender, John, 25 Jan 1896, aged 16, Drawer, Fall of roof stone at longwall face from above tramway which was laid along face | |||||
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Blackston Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Blackston Colliery
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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
- 1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), 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
- 1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), 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
- 1920 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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