	Hassockrigg Colliery	Index	Hassockrigg Colliery

Hassockrigg Colliery

Location:	12 miles [19 km] NNW of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS872626, 55° 50' 36" N, 3° 48' 6" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Coltness Iron Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Ironstone.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1920 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1947 - Coal: Household, Industrial, Manufacturing, Steam. (100,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Household, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 195 (163 below, 32 surface)
	1896 - 193 (158 below, 35 surface)
	1900 - 191 (153 below, 38 surface)
	1905 - 225 (182 below, 43 surface)
	1910 - 213 (169 below, 44 surface)
	1915 - 218 (171 below, 47 surface)
	1920 - 171 (125 below, 46 surface)
	1923 - 188 (132 below, 56 surface)
	1933 - 266 (210 below, 56 surface)
	1937 - 287 (243 below, 44 surface)
	1940 - 287 (243 below, 44 surface)
	1947 - 331 (263 below, 68 surface)
	1954 - 350 (275 below, 75 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Upper Drumgray, Virtuewell
	1910 - Upper Drumgray, Virtuewell
	1915 - Mid Drumgray, Upper Drumgray, Virtuewell
	1920 - Mid Drumgray, Upper Drumgray, Virtuewell
	1954 - Ball, Colinburn, 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!

						Duffy, J., 07 May 1936, (accident: 06 May 1936), Coal Cutter, caused by a coal cutting machine "jumping" suddenly away from the coal face
						Edwards, Thomas, 21 Mar 1894, 10.30 a.m., aged 39, Miner, Fall of roof
						McCartney, Francis, 30 Mar 1905, aged 48, Miner, While deceased was working at the face the roof suddenly fell upon him. The roof was composed of sandstone with clay joints and lypes, and stone fell away from between them
						McVicar, Robert, 03 Aug 1922, 3.30 a.m., 7th hour of shift, aged 21, Coalcutting machineman, He was ratchetting in the bar of a coal cutting machine while in a kneeling position. Owing to the ratchet key slipping suddenly off the pin he overbalanced and fell on to the revolving bar. He received severe injuries to the right side and back of the upper part of the body and died almost immediately.
						Nayles, Thomas, 04 Apr 1935, aged 47, Collier, They were working together at the rear of a coal-cutting machine when a fall of nearly five tons of debris took place, pinning both men to the pavement and burying them ; residence: 21 Hunter Street, Shotts ; leaves a widow and a family of nine [More information ...]
						Warner, Patrick, 04 Apr 1935, aged 25, Collier, They were working together at the rear of a coal-cutting machine when a fall of nearly five tons of debris took place, pinning both men to the pavement and burying them ; residence: 9 Hunter Place, Shotts ; single [More information ...]

						6 names found

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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
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Robert McLaren, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
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
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
Contributions by members of the Public
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website