	Muircockhall Colliery	Index	Muircockhall Colliery

Muircockhall Colliery

Location:	Townhill 5 miles [8 km] ENE of Dunfermline
Map Ref:	(Sheet 58 Perth and Alloa) NT159910, 56° 6' 16" N, 3° 21' 8" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Henry Ness and Co.
	Henry Ness and Co., Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1915 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
	1920 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 64 (51 below, 13 surface)
	1896 - 74 (63 below, 11 surface)
	1900 - 81 (71 below, 10 surface)
	1905 - 88 (76 below, 12 surface)
	1910 - 64 (55 below, 9 surface)
	1915 - 256 (202 below, 54 surface)
	1920 - 314 (259 below, 55 surface)
	1923 - 263 (220 below, 43 surface)
	1933 - 180 (141 below, 39 surface)
	1940 - 291 (250 below, 41 surface)
	1947 - 34 (29 below, 5 surface)
	1954 - 18 (15 below, 3 surface) [Training Centre]
Seams Worked:	1905 - Cairncubie, Six Feet, Three Feet
	1910 - Cairncubie, Six Feet, Three Feet
	1915 - Cairncubie, Eight Feet, Three Feet
	1920 - Cairncubie, Eight Feet, Fourteen Feet, Six Feet
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!

						Cant, Henry, 27 Jun 1922, 7.15 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 45, Repairer, He had been timbering and repairing a broken down roadhead and was beginning to erect a roadside pillar when a further fall of roof rock and blaes swung out two straps and a crown and killed him. Another man was slightly injured. The working of a seam below had broken the ground.
						Findlay, Charles, 06 Dec 1924, 7.30 a.m., 1st hour of shift, aged 60, Miner, He was trying to get down some top coal, but, finding it very hard, he decided to bore a shot hole. Whilst using his pick in the top coal in preparation for boring, the coal fell and injured him so severely that he died the same day. The fall measured 7½ ft. long by 1 ft. 4 ins. wide by 1 ft. 8 ins. thick, and would weigh about 10 cwts. No timber was displaced
						Oswald, John, 30 Apr 1895, 11 a.m., aged 49, Miner, Fall of coal
						Roxburgh, Richard, 03 Mar 1885, aged 52, Labourer, Crushed by waggons at screens during shunting operations
						Sanders, John, 19 Dec 1888, Labourer, Was in waggon disloading a crane, when a log rolled over, and he was knocked out with it
						Unknown, -, 08 Jun 1875, Collier, [Sundries Underground] Failed to get away from a shot

						6 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1888 Mines Inspectors Report (C 5779), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Ralph Moore, 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
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
1922 Mines Inspectors Report
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
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