	Dykehead Colliery	Index	Dykehead Colliery

Dykehead Colliery

Location:	Larkhall
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Owners:	Summerlee Iron Co.
	Summerlee and Mossend Iron and Steel Co.
	Summerlee Iron Co., Ltd.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1910 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1920 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 332 (279 below, 53 surface)
	1896 - 317 (272 below, 45 surface)
	1900 - 310 (271 below, 39 surface)
	1905 - 342 (294 below, 48 surface)
	1910 - 329 (283 below, 46 surface)
	1915 - 388 (313 below, 75 surface)
	1920 - 709 (606 below, 103 surface)
	1923 - 716 (612 below, 104 surface)
	1933 - 470 (390 below, 80 surface)
	1940 - 460 (380 below, 80 surface)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Ell, Main, Splint, Virtuewell
	1915 - Ell, Main, Splint, Virtuewell
	1920 - Ell, Main, Pyotshaw, Splint, Virtuewell
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!

						Barns, John, 20 Jan 1894, 11.30 a.m., aged 59, Miner, Fall of stone
						Bell, Gardner, 27 Feb 1873, Roadsman, Fall of roof. A prop was knocked out accidently by a tub he was drawing
						Chapel, John, 19 Mar 1878, aged 24, Collier, Crushed by descending cage while attempting to cross the bottom. There was a road by the side
						Faulds, Daniel, 02 Oct 1879, aged 40, Oversman, Fall of roof. At "stooping" while drawing props
						Frame, George, 09 Jul 1907, aged 25, Miner, Fall of roof while drawing props
						McGhie, James, 11 Jan 1907, aged 58, Miner, Fall of roof in working place
						McMillan, William, 23 Mar 1922, (accident: 07 Dec 1921, 4.30 p.m., 2nd hour of shift), aged 17, Pony driver, Deceased was filling debris into a hutch at the face of stone drift when the root collapsed without warning and he was pinned under the fallen material. The fall slipped from between two keen lypes and reeled out the supports. He received such injuries that he died on 23rd March 1922.
						McQueen, Robert, 07 Dec 1908, aged 50, Miner, Fall of coal while preparing to wedge it down
						Mitchell, William, 17 Feb 1877, aged 22, Collier, Fall of roof. At face. Stoop and room
						Muir, George, 29 Nov 1886, aged 42, Collier, Fall of roof. At stoops
						Phillips, David, 14 Jun 1912, aged 52, Miner, Knocked down by a fall of a piece of coal he was trying to take down. In his fall his head struck a piece of coal lying on the pavement and his skull was fractured.
						Scott, Robert, 29 Jun 1899, aged 53, Roadsman, Deceased was laying a hutch road in to a stoop which was about to be taken out. when a stone, 5 ft. by 4 ft. at extremes and 5½ ins. in thickness, suddenly fell upon him, swinging out the props which had been under its lighter end. He sustained injuries to which he succumbed three days later
						Sweeney, James, 12 Dec 1876, aged 24, Collier, [Fall of roof] At "stoops," while drawing props
						William, R., 15 Dec 1867, aged 16, Collier, Jumped on the cage while it was in motion
						Wilson, Robert, 21 Mar 1867, aged 14, Driver, Crushed by tubs (found dead)

						15 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
1876 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1734), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321), 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
1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), 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
1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, 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
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
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
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