	Fauldhouse Colliery	Index	Fauldhouse Colliery

Fauldhouse Colliery

Location:	Fauldhouse 10½ miles [17 km] NNE of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS925599, 55° 49' 13" N, 3° 42' 57" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	William Dixon Ltd.
	Barr and Thornton Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1855 - Coal.
	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
	1915 - No. 1 - Coal. Fireclay.
	1920 - No. 1 - Coal, ironstone. Fireclay.
Employment:	1894 - 103 (68 below, 35 surface)
	1896 - 69 (43 below, 26 surface)
	1915 - No. 1 - 96 (74 below, 22 surface)
	1920 - No. 1 - 104 (66 below, 38 surface)
	1923 - No. 1 - 104 (66 below, 38 surface)
	1933 - No. 1 - 355 (282 below, 73 surface)
	1937 - No. 1 - 335 (257 below, 78 surface)
	1940 - No. 1 - 345 (263 below, 82 surface)
Seams Worked:	1915 - No. 1 - Mill
	1920 - No. 1 - Ball, 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!

						Ferrie, Hugh, 15 Oct 1874, aged 26, Miner, Fall of roof at face (longwall)
						Graham, Douglas, 12 May 1892, aged 15, Pony driver, Run over by waggons after work hours
						Jardine, Peter, 13 Sep 1879, aged 55, Bottomer, He stepped off the cage too soon, and fell in below it, on descending in the morning
						McCoul, Hugh, 04 Jan 1881, aged 12, Drawer, Fall of roof while filling a hutch at face. Long wall
						McDonald, William, 23 Feb 1860, Collier, By fall of roof at face of working
						Millar, William, 13 May 1874, aged 14, Driver, Run over by wagons close to the pit, while going from his work
						Munro, Thomas, 21 May 1865, aged 66, Miner, Fall of ironstone balls
						Murphy, James, 25 Oct 1888, aged 40, Miner, Fall of roof at face, longwall
						Watson, George, 23 Sep 1873, aged 45, Sinker, Fell or was knocked off a plank in a sinking pit, five fathoms from the bottom
						Whitefield, R., 28 Nov 1866, aged 15, Drawer, Fall of roof in road

						10 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1860 Mines Inspectors Report, by Robert Williams, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1888 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5779), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986), East Scotland District (No. 1) by J. B. Atkinson, 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
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
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
1937 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
Mineral Statistics for 1855 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website