	Kingshill Colliery	Index	Kingshill Colliery

Kingshill Colliery

Location:	Newmains, Allanton Moor 7 miles [11 km] NNW of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS869543, 55° 46' 9" N, 3° 48' 11" W
Opened:
Closed:
Sinking Started:	1974
Owners:	Coltness Iron Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1920 - Coal: Manufacturing.
	1947 - No. 1 - Coal: Coking, Household, Industrial, Manufacturing, Steam. (375,000 tons)
	1947 - No. 2 - Coal: Coking, Household, Industrial, Manufacturing. (190,000 tons)
	1954 - No. 1 - Coal: Coking, Household, Steam.
	1954 - No. 2 - Coal: Coking, Steam.
	1954 - No. 3 - Coal: Coking, Household, Steam.
Employment:	1915 - 35 (19 below, 16 surface) [Sinking]
	1920 - 315 (245 below, 70 surface)
	1923 - 520 (411 below, 109 surface)
	1933 - 817 (666 below, 151 surface)
	1937 - 1,027 (825 below, 202 surface)
	1937 - No. 2 - 483 (401 below, 82 surface)
	1940 - 1,027 (825 below, 202 surface)
	1940 - No. 2 - 483 (401 below, 82 surface)
	1947 - No. 1 - 1,410 (1,133 below, 277 surface)
	1947 - No. 2 - 615 (512 below, 103 surface)
	1954 - No. 1 - 996 (731 below, 265 surface)
	1954 - No. 2 - 657 (537 below, 120 surface)
	1954 - No. 3 - 616 (574 below, 42 surface)
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
Seams Worked:	1920 - Upper and Lower Kingshill
	1954 - No. 1 - Lower Allanton, Upper Allanton
	1954 - No. 2 - Lower Allanton, Upper Allanton
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!

						Barr, James Lang, 23 May 1931, aged 42, Brusher, killed by a fall of roof - fractured spine, death instantaneous ; address: 24, Springhead Road, Allanton, Shotts
						Clemenson, William, 11 Dec 1924, 8.45 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 37, Miner, He was throwing coal down the face when he was crushed and killed by a long fall of roof from between the front row of props and the face. The place was between two faults, 7 yards apart, and was full of "lypes." If straps had been set the accident should have been prevented
						Douglas, William, 13 Nov 1934, aged 30, underground fire [More information ...]
						McCallum, James, 13 Nov 1934, aged 22, underground fire [More information ...]
						McFadyen, Edward, 12 Feb 1924, 4.30 p.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 40, Brusher, He was boring a shot hole while standing near an overhanging stone in the comer of the face of the brushing. The stone had been sounded and was considered safe. When the coal cutting machine had almost cut past the roadhead the stone fell and knocked McFadyen down, so that the back of his head struck the side of the road. He died 7 hours later from fracture of the base of the skull
						Stewart, Edward, 13 Nov 1934, aged 28, underground fire [More information ...]

						6 names found

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Credits

Sources:

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
Contributions by members of the Public