	Callendar Policy Colliery	Index	Callendar Policy Colliery

Callendar Policy Colliery

Location:	11 miles [18 km] SSE of Stirling
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS884788, 55° 59' 22" N, 3° 47' 20" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Callendar Coal Co.
	Callendar Coal Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1855 - Coal.
	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1915 - No. 14 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1915 - Nos. 16, 17 and 18 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay.
	1920 - No. 14 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone. Fireclay.
	1920 - No. 7 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam. Ganister. Fireclay.
	1920 - Nos. 16 and 17 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone. Fireclay.
	1947 - Policy - Coal: Household, Steam. (40,000 tons)
Employment:	1894 - 230 (201 below, 29 surface)
	1896 - 313 (289 below, 24 surface)
	1900 - 272 (242 below, 30 surface)
	1905 - 248 (214 below, 34 surface)
	1910 - 236 (201 below, 35 surface)
	1915 - No. 14 - 99 (85 below, 14 surface)
	1915 - No. 15 - 40 (33 below, 7 surface)
	1915 - No. 7 - 69 (52 below, 17 surface)
	1915 - Nos. 16, 17 and 18 - 139 (112 below, 27 surface)
	1920 - 136 (103 below, 33 surface)
	1920 - Nos. 16 and 17 - 204 (149 below, 55 surface)
	1923 - No. 7 - 113 (99 below, 14 surface)
	1923 - Nos. 16 and 17 - 212 (165 below, 47 surface)
	1933 - Policy - 97 (75 below, 22 surface)
	1933 - Nos. 16 and 17 - 138 (109 below, 29 surface)
	1937 - Policy - 110 (90 below, 20 surface)
	1937 - Nos. 16 and 17 - 147 (117 below, 30 surface)
	1940 - Policy - 110 (90 below, 20 surface)
	1940 - Nos. 16 and 17 - 147 (117 below, 30 surface)
	1947 - Policy - 100 (80 below, 20 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Lower Drumgray, Main, Mill
	1910 - Main, Mill, Upper and Lower Drumgray
	1915 - No. 14 - Upper and Lower Drumgray
	1915 - No. 15 - Lower Drumgray
	1915 - No. 7 - Lower Drumgray, Mill
	1915 - Nos. 16, 17 and 18 - Main, Mid, Mill
	1920 - No. 14 - Upper and Lower Drumgray
	1920 - No. 7 - Ball, Lower Drumgray, Main, Mill
	1920 - Nos. 16 and 17 - Main, Mid Drumgray, 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!

						Allison, John, 21 Oct 1898, Surfaceman, Deceased and three other surfacemen were riding on a bogie over which they had control. The other men got off, but deceased remained on until it ran into a waggon
						Anderson, John, 14 Apr 1891, 1.30 p.m., aged 27, Collier, Fall of roof
						Dalgleish, William, 14 Nov 1874, aged 55, Labourer, He ran a hutch into the pit when the cage was not there, and the gate standing open
						Gardner, James, 17 Nov 1893, 1 a.m., aged 45, Miner and drawer, Fall of coal
						Lockhart, James, 09 Dec 1905, aged 45, Pitheadman, Two loaded dross waggons were being moved forward to rest against another in front and just as they were about to collide deceased stepped between and was crushed between the buffers
						McPherson, James, 30 Jun 1909, (accident: 10 Jun 1909), aged 23, Drawer, Deceased was "backening" coal to the road, when a stone fell upon him ; death resulted three weeks after
						O'Donnall, Daniel, 28 Oct 1906, (accident: 25 Sep 1906), aged 28, Miner, Deceased was engaged cutting out a place in the coal for starting a disc coal-cutting machine in a bad roof ; he fired a shot, which threw out a prop, and while he was re-setting the prop the roof fell and injured him ; he died on 28th October, 1906
						Reid, William, 11 Aug 1884, aged 26, Collier, Fall of roof. At face ; long wall
						Wilson, A., Jun 1936, (accident: Dec 1932), a stone dropped from the roof on to his back

						9 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, 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
1898 Mines Inspectors Report (C 9264), 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
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
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), 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
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
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
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
Mineral Statistics for 1855 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.