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Holmes (Oil shale)
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| Location: | Uphall 10½ miles [17 km] S of Dunfermline |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NT070703, 55° 55' 2" N, 3° 29' 16" W |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | 1900 |
| Owners: | Holmes Oil Co., Ltd. |
| Output: | 1894 - Holmes - Oil Shale. |
| 1896 - Holmes - Oil Shale. | |
| 1900 - Holmes - Oil shale. | |
| Employment: | 1894 - Holmes - 126 (110 below, 16 surface) |
| 1896 - Holmes - 141 (126 below, 15 surface) | |
| 1900 - Holmes - 82 (70 below, 12 surface) [Abandoned] | |
| 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!
 | Gallocher, Peter, 13 Jan 1899, aged 40, Miner, After lighting two shots of gunpowder at the face of a crosscut mine, and retiring crying "fire," he appears to have gone back on them, and was instantly killed. | |||||
| Linn, William, 15 Dec 1887, aged 17, Miner, Went back before shot went off | |||||
| McAulay, Dennis, 08 Oct 1898, aged 34, Miner, Deceased was taking out a stoop uphill, and, after firing two shots, was engaged at the face holing with a pick, when a block of shale fell from a clay back and crushed him | |||||
| McLachlan, John, 10 Jun 1890, aged 27, Miner, Explosion of firedamp [More information ...] | |||||
| McLachlan, Patrick, 17 Jun 1892, 11 p.m., 5th hour of shift, aged 23, Drawer, Explosion of firedamp | |||||
| O'Brien, John, 28 Jul 1886, aged 20, Chain runner, It is supposed a piece of shale off a passing tub ran down incline and struck him | |||||
| 6 names found | ||||||
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Holmes (Oil shale)
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Holmes (Oil shale)
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Credits
Sources:
- 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
- 1898 Mines Inspectors Report (C 9264), East Scotland District (No. 1) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1899 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 134), 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
- OS Grid Reference from GB1900 dataset
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