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Fallahill Colliery

Location:	Fauldhouse 11½ miles [18 km] N of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS917617, 55° 50' 14" N, 3° 43' 44" W
Opened:	1890
Closed:	1905
Pits:	No. 1 Pit
	No. 2 Pit
	No. 3 Pit, locn: (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS913616
	No. 4 Pit, locn: (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS913615
Owners:	Peter Thornton
	United Collieries, Ltd.
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 76 (58 below, 18 surface)
	1896 - 98 (81 below, 17 surface)
	1900 - 234 (204 below, 30 surface)
	1905 - 129 (109 below, 20 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Blackband, Furnace, Main, Shotts
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!

						Cook, Adam, 20 Oct 1902, aged 16, Drawer, Suffocated by underground fire [More information ...]
						Grant, John, 30 Jul 1901, aged 40, Brusher, Deceased worked alone, and was engaged brushing a road, and on the fireman making his round of inspection he was discovered under a stone quite dead. From the position it was thought deceased had been taking out props when the roof fell on him
						Kerr, James, 12 Nov 1895, aged 18, Labourer, Fall of tirr
						Kilpatrick, Robert, 20 Oct 1902, aged 57, Fireman, Suffocated by underground fire [More information ...]
						McKnight, William, 17 Mar 1897, aged 31, Shunter, Deceased was between two loaded waggons to couple them, when they became buffer locked through the points being wrongly set, and he was fatally crushed
						McLean, James, 11 Apr 1900, aged 23, Miner, Deceased was working alone in a long wall place, in a thin seam, when a piece of sandstone, 7 ft. in length and of triangular section, fell upon him, fracturing his skull. One side of the stone was formed by a "dry," which only became visible after the accident
						Pettigrew, James, 20 Oct 1902, aged 42, Brusher, Suffocated by underground fire [More information ...]
						Ramsay, John, 22 Jun 1895, 5.25 a.m., aged 16, Drawer, Fell from cage
						Russell, John, 20 Oct 1902, aged 32, Brusher, Suffocated by underground fire [More information ...]

						9 names found

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Those names marked with , were killed in a disaster for which a memorial has been erected or for which we have images concerning the disaster, alternately their name may be mentioned on a memorial plaque. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the appropriate web page for the memorial.

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Credits

Sources:

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
1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), East Scotland District (No. 1) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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