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Mansfield Colliery [AYR]

Location:	New Cumnock 18 miles [28 km] ESE of Ayr
Map Ref:	(Sheet 71 Lanark and Upper Nithsdale) NS616151, 55° 24' 39" N, 4° 11' 11" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1850's - Sir J. S. Monteith
	1860's - James Gray
	1900's - Polquhairn Coal Co., Ltd.
Output:	1905 - Mansfield - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1910 - Mansfield - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1915 - Mansfield - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1920 - Mansfield - Coal: Household, Steam.
	1925 - Mansfield - Coal: Gas, Steam.
Employment:	1905 - Mansfield - 57 (50 below, 7 surface)
	1910 - Mansfield - 75 (59 below, 16 surface)
	1915 - Mansfield - 53 (35 below, 18 surface)
	1920 - Mansfield - 48 (27 below, 21 surface)
	1923 - Mansfield - 38 (25 below, 13 surface)
	1925 - Mansfield - 31 (21 below, 10 surface)
Seams Worked:	1910 - Mansfield - Main
	1915 - Mansfield - Four Feet, Six Inch, Three Feet
	1920 - Mansfield - Four Feet Six, Ironstone, Three Feet
	1925 - Mansfield - Four Feet Six

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!

						Johnstone, Robert, 06 May 1924, 10.0 a.m., 3rd hour of shift, aged 77, Labourer, An empty 6½-ton wagon was being moved by a horse on the colliery siding line when, for no apparent reason, the horse took fright, and ran away. In turning round the horse knocked over deceased, who was holding on to it. Unfortunately, the tail chain hook caught in deceased's left boot and the poor old man was dragged 600 yards or thereby. He expired just after the horse was stopped. The horse was fresh for want of work. Deceased was too old to control such a heavy horse, but apparently he had perfect confidence in himself

						1 name found

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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
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