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Fordel Mains Colliery
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| Location: | Dalkeith 4½ miles [7 km] ENE of Dunfermline |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NT159894, 56° 5' 24" N, 3° 21' 6" W |
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| Owners: | Fordel Mains (Midlothian) Colliery Co., Ltd. |
| Output: | 1920 - Coal: Household. |
| Employment: | 1920 - 67 (35 below, 32 surface) |
| 1923 - 145 (102 below, 43 surface) | |
| 1933 - 180 (140 below, 40 surface) | |
| 1940 - 219 (165 below, 54 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1920 - Bryan's Splint, Five Feet, Kailblades |
| Notes: | Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete! |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Brown, Walter, 19 May 1924, 11.0 a.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 62, Repairer, He was repairing in a main heading road of gradient 1 in 8.5. The road served, above where he was working, four branches of a machine run. A loaded tub ran away from the highest branch, travelled 144 ft., and struck Brown before he was able to get clear. Brown was thrown against the side so that his head came in contact with some projecting stone. His skull was fractured and he died an hour later. The repairing job, according to the fireman, was not urgent, and, therefore, had it been left to a less busy time of the day the accident might not have occurred | |||||
| Gillespie, Patrick, 29 Sep 1933, aged 26, Brusher, Killed by a fall of material at the coal face | |||||
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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.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Fordel Mains Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Fordel Mains Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 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
- 1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Scotland Division (No. 1) by J. Masterton, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection]
- 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
- OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website
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