	Calderhead Colliery	Index	Calderhead Colliery

Calderhead Colliery

also known as Muiracre Colliery

Location:	Shotts 11 miles [18 km] NNW of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS877614, 55° 49' 58" N, 3° 47' 31" W
Opened:	1850
Closed:	1958
Owners:	Andrew Darling
	Shotts Iron Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1947 - Coal: Household, Industrial, Manufacturing. (140,000 tons)
	1954 - Nos. 3 and 4 - Coal: Household, Steam. Blaes.
Employment:	1894 - 17 (15 below, 2 surface)
	1896 - 8 (6 below, 2 surface)
	1947 - 571 (477 below, 94 surface)
	1954 - Nos. 3 and 4 - 335 (275 below, 60 surface)
Seams Worked:	1954 - Nos. 3 and 4 - Main, Mill
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!

						Boles, Samuel, 28 Nov 1887, aged 15, Collier, Fall of roof. At face; long wall
						Campbell, John, 03 May 1890, 10.00 a.m., 4th hour of shift, aged 50, Miner, Fall of stone
						Kane, Owen, 21 Mar 1910, aged 48, Miner, Fall of stone from face of brushing
						Lawler, James, 24 Jul 1888, aged 42, Collier, Fall of side. At face; long wall
						Skelly, John, 24 Feb 1886, aged 23, Collier, Fall of roof. At face; long wall
						Smith, Peter, 28 Feb 1873, Roadsman, Fall of roof

						6 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1888 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5779), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1890 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6346), East Scotland District (No. 1) by J. B. Atkinson, 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
1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676), Scotland District (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1947 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
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian