	Crofthead Colliery	Index	Crofthead Colliery

Crofthead Colliery

Location:	Fauldhouse 12 miles [19 km] NNE of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS942616, 55° 50' 12" N, 3° 41' 17" W
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Pits:	No. 1 Pit, locn: (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS939617
	No. 2 Pit, locn: (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS939614
	No. 3 Pit, locn: (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS936617
	No. 5 Pit, locn: (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS932615
	No. 7 Pit
Owners:	Coltness Iron Company
	Crofthead Iron Co.
	Peter Thornton
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam.
	1910 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - No. 5 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
	1915 - No. 7 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
	1920 - No. 5 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
	1920 - No. 7 - Coal: Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
Employment:	1894 - 310 (275 below, 35 surface)
	1896 - 203 (176 below, 27 surface)
	1900 - 218 (191 below, 27 surface)
	1905 - 160 (126 below, 34 surface)
	1910 - 211 (180 below, 31 surface)
	1915 - No. 5 - 28 (7 below, 21 surface)
	1915 - No. 7 - 140 (130 below, 10 surface)
	1920 - No. 5 - 100 (68 below, 32 surface)
	1920 - No. 7 - 125 (116 below, 9 surface)
	1923 - No. 5 - 100 (68 below, 32 surface)
	1923 - No. 7 - 125 (116 below, 9 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Furnace, Main
	1910 - Ball, Main, Mill
	1915 - No. 5 - Ball, Main, Mill
	1915 - No. 7 - Ball, Main, Mill
	1920 - No. 5 - Lower Drumgray
	1920 - No. 7 - Ball, Main
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!

						Bolton, Walter, 30 Dec 1901, aged 29, Brusher, After firing a shot in the brushing, deceased began to take off the loose material, when a stone fell from the roof, killing him instantaneously
						Brown, William, 01 Oct 1912, aged 21, Machineman, He was behind a coal cutting machine driving it under a roof where clay filled the hollows of a rolling rock. The coal fell close to the disc, allowing the roof supports set or needled in to fall away from the clay roof, two tons of which descended and suffocated him
						Cumming, James, 01 Aug 1907, aged 54, Miner, Deceased was holing his coal when the roof suddenly fell upon him
						Dailly, George, 10 Jun 1902, aged 14, Waggon greaser, Deceased either had attempted to pass between the waggons as they were being pushed toward the pits, and run over, or was crossing the rails when he was run down
						Fordyce, Peter, 07 Apr 1876, aged 14, Bottomer, Struck by a piece of ironstone falling down shaft
						Kirk, John, 22 Dec 1902, aged 29, Miner, Deceased was taking down some coal at the roadhead in a longwall working, when a large stone fell upon him from the face of the brushing, causing injuries to which he succumbed two days afterwards
						O'Neil, H., 26 Nov 1863, Miner, Cage catched while he was descending, and he was pitched out on to a scaffold. He died in the infirmary
						Scott, Helen, 14 Jan 1891, aged 10, Not employed, Crushed by waggons
						Smeaton, George, 25 Feb 1897, aged 14, Coal picker, Deceased left his place at the "shaker" and went to the siding, and by some means unknown fell in front of a loaded moving waggon
						Sommerville, John, 02 May 1891, 6.10 a.m., aged 21, Pitheadman, Fell down shaft
						Stevenson, John, 25 Nov 1852, Struck by piece of stone
						Watson, Thomas, 22 Nov 1876, aged 24, Miner, Fall of roof at face. Longwall
						Whyte, Isaac, 13 Jul 1908, aged 37, Washery Attendant, Deceased was on top of "pearl" hopper, when the man in charge of the screen below opened the valve to fill a waggon, and he was carried down with the material. Before he was rescued he was suffocated
						Young, John, 18 Oct 1852, Struck by chain falling down

						14 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1852 (Jul-Dec) Mines Inspectors Report, by William Lancaster, H.M. Inspector of Mines, published in 1854
1863 Mines Inspectors Report, by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1734), 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
1897 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8819), 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
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
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Robert McLaren, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Robert McLaren, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
1912 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6983), 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
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