	Manor Powis Colliery	Index	Manor Powis Colliery

Manor Powis Colliery

Location:	Causewayhead, Stirling 2½ miles [4 km] E of Stirling
Map Ref:	(Sheet 56 Loch Lomond and Inveraray, 57 Stirling and The Trossachs) NS830948, 56° 7' 54" N, 3° 52' 58" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Manor Powis Coal Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1920 - Coal: Anthracite, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1925 - Coal: Anthracite, Steam.
	1947 - Coal: Anthracite, Manufacturing, Steam. (162,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Anthracite, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1910 - 5 (3 below, 2 surface) [New sinking]
	1915 - 206 (147 below, 59 surface)
	1920 - 706 (529 below, 177 surface)
	1923 - 731 (576 below, 155 surface)
	1925 - 850 (698 below, 152 surface)
	1933 - 810 (670 below, 140 surface)
	1940 - 590 (460 below, 130 surface)
	1947 - 420 (280 below, 140 surface)
	1954 - 647 (491 below, 156 surface)
Seams Worked:	1915 - Greenyards, Hirst, Main
	1920 - Greenyards, Hirst, Lower Hirst, Main
	1925 - Bannockburn Main, Greenyards, Hirst, Knott, Main
	1954 - Auchenbowie, Hirst
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!

						Berry, David, 27 Mar 1939, (accident: 25 Mar 1939), aged 44, Roadsman, Explosion of gas, 1 Park Terrace, Causewayhea [More information ...]
						Dalrymple, A., 06 Aug 1935, Miner, A stone fell from the roof and pinned him to the pavement. He was dead when extricated by his workmates
						Dunn, Robert, 31 Mar 1939, (accident: 25 Mar 1939), aged 33, Roadsman, Explosion of gas, 3c Barnsdale Road, St Ninians [More information ...]
						Hodgson, Mark, 10 Oct 1924, 8.15 p.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 28, Assistant Machineman, He was attending to the coal cutting machine which had just commenced to cut, when a mass of very friable blaes brushing (6 ft. by 6 ft. by 3 ft.) in the roadhead, fell from between two unobserved lypes and through the supporting timbers. Hodgson was buried, and, before he could be extricated, he died from suffocation
						Kirkpatrick, John, 17 Dec 1924, (accident: 15 Dec 1924, 1.0 p.m., 7th hour of shift), aged 25, Surface Worker, He was assisting three other young men to carry a heavy beam of timber (26 ft. long, 8 ins. by 8 ins. square) across very rough and uneven ground. One of the men tripped, and the beam bore down Kirkpatrick and fell flatly on the side of his head. His skull was fractured and he died 2½ days later. Before setting off, these men were advised by the mill sawyer to get a bogie and not to carry such a heavy beam in such a dangerous manner, but they wanted to finish work early and adopted the method for speed
						McHattie, Adam, 04 Apr 1939, (accident: 25 Mar 1939), aged 32, Oncost Worker, Explosion of gas, 5 Wellgreen, Stirling [More information ...]
						McLaren, Duncan, 04 Apr 1939, (accident: 25 Mar 1939), aged 38, Repairer, Explosion of gas, 25a East Murrayfield, Bannockburn [More information ...]

						7 names found

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Credits

Sources:

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
1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Scotland Division (No. 1) by J. Masterton, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection]
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website