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Jenny Gray Colliery
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| Location: | Lochgelly 7½ miles [12 km] ENE of Dunfermline |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 58 Perth and Alloa) NT190935, 56° 7' 39" N, 3° 18' 12" W |
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| Owners: | Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co., Ltd. |
| 1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) | |
| Output: | 1905 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
| 1910 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1915 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Blaes. | |
| 1920 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing. (162,400 tons) | |
| 1954 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1905 - 479 (419 below, 60 surface) [inc. Melgund] |
| 1910 - 454 (407 below, 47 surface) | |
| 1915 - 330 (289 below, 41 surface) | |
| 1920 - 444 (397 below, 47 surface) | |
| 1923 - 410 (360 below, 50 surface) | |
| 1933 - 410 (360 below, 50 surface) | |
| 1940 - 450 (390 below, 60 surface) | |
| 1947 - 436 (337 below, 99 surface) | |
| 1954 - 492 (400 below, 92 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1905 - Five Feet, Little Splint, Lochgelly Splint, Mynheer |
| 1910 - Five Feet, Glassee, Mynheer | |
| 1915 - Dunfermline Splint, Five Feet, Glassee, Mynheer, Parrot | |
| 1920 - Dunfermline Splint, Five Feet, Glassee, Mynheer, Parrot | |
| 1954 - Fourteen Feet, Little Splint, Rough | |
| 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!
 |  | Cook, John, 30 Mar 1930, Fall of face coal | ||||
| | Ramsay, William, 13 Nov 1928, aged 14, Killed by hutches | ||||
| 2 names found | ||||||
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.
Those names marked with ,
have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may
also include a photograph of the deceased.
Click on the symbol
next to the name to see the web page.
Some of the names of mining fatalities on this page have been kindly provided by Ian Winstanley of the
Coal Mining History Resource Centre (CMHRC) and are marked with .
The CMHRC is available here.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Jenny Gray Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Jenny Gray Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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
- 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
- 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
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