Lethans Colliery

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Location:	Saline 5 miles [8 km] NNW of Dunfermline
Map Ref:	(Sheet 58 Perth and Alloa) NT061944, 56° 7' 59" N, 3° 30' 40" W
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	No. 1 Pit
	No. 2 Pit, locn: (Sheet 58 Perth and Alloa) NT055942
Owners:	Wilsons and Clyde Coal Co., Ltd.
Output:	1910 - No. 1 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - No. 1 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - No. 2 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1920 - No. 1 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1920 - No. 2 - Coal: Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1905 - 25 (14 below, 11 surface) [Sinking]
	1910 - No. 1 - 170 (152 below, 18 surface)
	1910 - No. 2 - 140 (120 below, 20 surface)
	1915 - No. 1 - 82 (62 below, 20 surface)
	1915 - No. 2 - 128 (99 below, 29 surface)
	1920 - No. 1 - 0 [Abandoned]
	1920 - No. 1 Mine - 0 [Abandoned]
	1920 - No. 2 - 271 (218 below, 53 surface)
	1920 - No. 2 Surface Mine - 9
	1923 - 374 (314 below, 60 surface)
	1933 - 243 (192 below, 51 surface)
Seams Worked:	1910 - No. 1 - Dunfermline Splint, Five Feet
	1910 - No. 2 - Five Feet, Formerly Saline or Killernie Colliery
	1915 - No. 1 - Dunfermline Splint, Five Feet
	1915 - No. 2 - Five Feet
	1920 - No. 1 - Dunfermline Splint, Five Feet, Thirty Inch [Abandoned 9/10/19. Plan to H.O. 9/1/20]
	1920 - No. 1 Mine - Dunfermline Splint [Abandoned 3/10/19. Plan to H.O. 9/1/20]
	1920 - No. 2 - Five Feet, Lochgelly, Parrot, Wee
	1920 - No. 2 Surface Mine - Lochgelly Parrot, Lochgelly Splint
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Clark, Alexander, 10 Mar 1908, aged 50, Miner, A stone mine was being driven in very hard stone ; two shot holes were bored in the bottom, and while deceased was pushing home the explosive, which was gelignite, with a wooden rammer, it exploded. The explosive apparently was not in proper condition

Gordon, James, 21 Dec 1911, aged 47, Brusher, He was making a place for a bar under "lypey" and broken roof, when a stone, weighing about a ton, broke the weak temporary support he had put up, and in falling killed him instantaneously

Johnstone, David, 14 Nov 1921, aged 31, Crushed by hutch

Turnbull, John, Senr, 26 May 1913, (accident: 21 May 1913), aged 49, Oncostman, He was preparing to set some props to some bad roof under which he intended to build a pillar afterwards, when a large stone fell on him from against a lype, indicting such injuries that he died five days later. A Coal Cutting Machine had just cut past the place, and it is thought that this threw on weight. The roadside building would have been erected under the stone the previous night had the brushers attended their work.

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1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1908 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 4672), 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
1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Scotland District (No. 1) by W. Walker, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1913 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 7439), Scotland Division (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
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
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website