| Cultrigg Colliery | Index | Cultrigg Colliery | ||
 |
|
 |
||
Cultrigg Colliery
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
| Location: | Fauldhouse 12½ miles [20 km] N of Lanark |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS925632, 55° 51' 3" N, 3° 43' 2" W |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | |
| Owners: | Barr and Thornton |
| Barr and Thornton Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
| 1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1915 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone. | |
| 1920 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone. | |
| Employment: | 1900 - 34 (14 below, 20 surface) [Sinking] |
| 1905 - 343 (300 below, 43 surface) | |
| 1910 - 457 (372 below, 85 surface) | |
| 1915 - 335 (255 below, 80 surface) | |
| 1920 - 367 (273 below, 94 surface) | |
| 1923 - 505 (390 below, 115 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1905 - Ball, Main |
| 1910 - Ball, Main, Mill | |
| 1915 - Ball, Main, Mill | |
| 1920 - Ball, Colinburn, 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!
 | Carruthers, John, 11 Apr 1901, aged 15, Drawer, Deceased had just descended a shaft, 35 fathoms in depth, where no bottomer was employed. He signalled the cage clear, and a moment later, as it had not been raised, attempted to cross upon it to the other side of the shaft. As he was entering it, the cage was raised, he was caught between it and the side of the shaft, was dragged up for some distance, and fell back into the bottom, being killed instantly | |||||
| Gray, George, 12 May 1922, 10.40 p.m., 1st hour of shift, aged 48, Coal cutterman, Owing to the starting switch having become jammed by coal he had switched off with the reversing switch. He was crossing the exposed disc and accidentally caused the reversing switch to close, thereby starting the machine. He was cut to pieces. | |||||
| Knox, William, 20 Jan 1908, aged 34, Miner, Deceased was working between two faults, when the side came away suddenly, carrying two sets of timber, and burying him beneath the fall | |||||
| Stone, James John, 10 Feb 1910, aged 13, Coal Cleaner, Two loaded hutches became detached from the haulage rope and overtook the deceased who was walking down the haulage road on his way home | |||||
| 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.
Click on the symbol
next to the name to see the web page.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Cultrigg Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Cultrigg Colliery
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Credits
Sources:
- 1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1901 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1062), East Scotland District (No. 1) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1905 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
- 1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676), 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
- 1922 Mines Inspectors Report
- 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
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Related Links:
None found
Contains public sector information licensed under the 
