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Easthouses Colliery

Location:	Newtongrange 7½ miles [12 km] SE of Edinburgh
Map Ref:	(Sheet 66 Edinburgh, Penicuik and North Berwick) NT346658, 55° 52' 51" N, 3° 2' 44" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Lothian Coal Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (190,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1933 - 0 [inc. in Newbattle]
	1940 - 0 [inc. in Lady Victoria]
	1947 - 416 (362 below, 54 surface)
	1954 - 805 (680 below, 125 surface)
Seams Worked:	1954 - Great Seam
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!

						Bald, John Hall, 11 Sep 1958, aged 47, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Campbell, David, 24 Aug 1949, aged 41, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Docherty, Thomas, 05 Aug 1952, aged 51, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Fairgrieve, John, 23 Nov 1944, aged 31, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Farquhar, Alexander John, 20 Dec 1957, aged 36, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Fulton, Alexander, 18 May 1935, aged 40, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Galloway, James, 25 Nov 1944, aged 58, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Hall, John, 06 Jan 1949, aged 68, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Hill, William Hay, 09 Jun 1956, aged 46, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Hogg, David, 09 Aug 1961, aged 57, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Knight, James, 02 Feb 1926, aged 50, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						McKenzie, Murdoch, 31 Dec 1946, aged 32, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						McQue, Thomas, 14 Jan 1930, aged 39, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Rother, Rudolf Robert, 18 Jun 1963, aged 35, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Shirkie, Alexander, 09 Feb 1965, aged 23, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Smith, Thomas, 05 Nov 1932, aged 48, Miner, Killed by a fall of coal
						Taylor, John, 20 Nov 1938, aged 45, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]
						Watkins, Frank, 03 Oct 1952, aged 47, [details unknown - name listed on Colliery Memorial]

						18 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)

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list of collieries/pits etc. near to Easthouses Colliery

Credits

Sources:

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
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
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website