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Comrie Colliery
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| Location: | Bickramside 5 miles [8 km] WNW of Dunfermline |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 58 Perth and Alloa) NT013906, 56° 5' 53" N, 3° 35' 12" W |
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| Owners: | Fife Coal Co., Ltd. |
| 1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) | |
| Output: | 1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Industrial. (385,000 tons) |
| 1948 - Coal: Household. Blaes. | |
| 1954 - Coal: Household. Blaes. | |
| Employment: | 1940 - 0 [Developing] |
| 1947 - 817 (660 below, 157 surface) | |
| 1948 - 934 (807 below, 127 surface) | |
| 1954 - 1,235 (1,075 below, 160 surface) | |
 Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
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| Seams Worked: | 1948 - Diamond, Jersey |
| 1954 - Diamond, Jersey | |
| 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!
 | Currie, James, 26 Dec 1865, aged 16, Pony driver, Windlass rope broke when he was descending a blind pit. The rope had been 6 months underground and was quite useless | |||||
| Meiklejohn, James, 10 Jul 1855, Fall of roof at face of working | |||||
| Wilson, Andrew, 24 Oct 1858, Engineer, By falling amongst and crushed by the wheels of pumping engine | |||||
| 3 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.
Click on the symbol
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 Comrie Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Comrie Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1855 Mines Inspectors Report, by Thomas Evans, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1858 Mines Inspectors Report, by Robert Williams, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 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
- 1948 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
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