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Highhouse Colliery

Location:	Auchinleck 13 miles [21 km] SE of Kilmarnock
Map Ref:	(Sheet 70 Ayr, Kilmarnock and Troon) NS549217, 55° 28' 3" N, 4° 17' 44" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	William Baird and Co., Ltd.
	Bairds and Dalmellington Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Coal.
	1896 - Coal.
	1900 - Coal: Household.
	1905 - Coal: Household.
	1910 - Coal: Household.
	1915 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Coal: Household.
	1920 - Coal: Household.
	1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Industrial. (135,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Household.
Employment:	1894 - 22 (12 below, 10 surface) [Sinking]
	1896 - 126 (110 below, 16 surface)
	1900 - 332 (293 below, 39 surface)
	1905 - 449 (390 below, 59 surface)
	1910 - 594 (514 below, 80 surface)
	1915 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 455 (383 below, 72 surface)
	1920 - 397 (330 below, 67 surface)
	1923 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 377 (322 below, 55 surface)
	1933 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 448 (377 below, 71 surface)
	1937 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 385 (308 below, 77 surface)
	1940 - Nos. 1 and 2 - 381 (303 below, 78 surface)
	1947 - 481 (368 below, 113 surface)
	1954 - 448 (344 below, 104 surface)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Ell, Main
	1915 - Nos. 1 and 2 - Ell, Main
	1920 - Ell, Main
	1954 - Ell, Maid or Hurlford Main, Main or Tourha, Major or Thirty Inch
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!

						Devine, Robert, 29 Mar 1907, aged 35, Brusher, When redding through an old drift and preparing to secure the roof, which he knew to be unsafe, the roof fell on him
						Duncan, James, 11 Dec 1902, aged 23, Assistant bottomer, Whilst drawing an empty hutch off the cage he was either struck by something falling down the shaft or he fell backwards and fractured his skull on the flange of the point plate
						Fraser, John, 22 Jun 1906, aged 29, Roadsman, Fall of roof on old road while withdrawing props [More information ...]
						Frew, John, 22 Feb 1905, aged 46, Roadsman, Fall of roof on self-acting incline while redding a fall. Other two men were injured
						Hazlett, Robert, 14 May 1912, aged 18, Drawer, He, and his father, had brought a tub to the face, which was a new lift just breaking off the side of a dook. The boy went round to the front of the tub via the opposite side of road from that on which they were at work, and, when getting there, a sudden fall of stone and coal from the stoop side killed him
						Lindsay, James, 18 Nov 1924, (accident: 16 Nov 1924, 8.45 a.m., 2nd hour of shift), aged 62, Shaftsman, Deceased, the leading shaftsman, was engaged in repairing a joint in the rising main of a shaft pump, this necessitated lowering a chain 40 ft. long and made of 1 1/8 in. iron down the shaft, the top of the chain being fixed to a beam in the shaft. Some of the chain lodged on a beam 19 ft. below the point of suspension. Deceased got on to this beam and kicked the chain clear, as the chain tightened it "whipped" and caught deceased a blow on the right temple, inflicting injuries from which he died 2 days and 15 hours later. Had the chain been lifted off the beam by a rope and lowered gently the accident might have been avoided
						McCartney, P., 08 Aug 1935, Miner, gas escape [More information ...]
						McClymont, David, 22 Mar 1911, aged 45, Collier, Deceased was taking off coal loosened by a shot when the roof suddenly fell at an unseen break upon him ; in falling a set of timber supporting it was displaced
						McPortland, Terence, 20 Aug 1903, aged 65, Gate keeper, When attempting to open crossing gates he was run over by a Railway Co.'s runaway van
						Miller, Robert, 22 Jun 1906, aged 20, Roadsman, Fall of roof on old road while withdrawing props [More information ...]
						Munro, John, 19 Nov 1907, aged 14, Stone picker, When crossing the rails at the screens he was crushed between waggons
						Richmond, John, 08 Nov 1900, aged 20, Miner, Fall of roof at working face
						Strachen, S., 08 Aug 1935, Miner, gas escape [More information ...]

						13 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
1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), West Scotland District (No. 2) by John M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2910), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1907 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4045), West Scotland District (No. 2) by J. M. Ronaldson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Scotland District (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1912 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6983), Scotland District (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
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
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
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website