	Overtown Colliery	Index	Overtown Colliery

Overtown Colliery

Location:	7½ miles [12 km] NW of Lanark
Map Ref:	(Sheet 64 Glasgow) NS798523, 55° 44' 57" N, 3° 54' 55" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	Coltness Iron Co., Ltd.
Output:	1947 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. (41,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam.
Employment:	1933 - 235 (199 below, 36 surface)
	1937 - 308 (262 below, 46 surface)
	1940 - 308 (262 below, 46 surface)
	1947 - 317 (268 below, 49 surface)
	1954 - 72 (50 below, 22 surface)
Seams Worked:	1954 - Upper Coal
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!

						Binnie, Adam, 01 Dec 1875, aged 35, Driver, [Fall of roof] At "stoops". While at the miner's face the roof fell upon him unexpectedly
						Cook, John, 22 Jul 1879, aged 23, Driver, A runaway set of loaded tubs came upon him at the foot of an incline while he was there with the empty set
						Cullen, Owen, 10 Dec 1864, aged 25, Drawer, Crushed by cage while attempting to cross pit bottom instead of going by road
						Davis, William, 06 May 1862, Collier, Fall of coal while driving out a prop
						Lennox, Robert, 13 Sep 1864, aged 13, Collier, Fall of coal (worked with his father)
						McLuskie, Henry, 22 May 1862, Collier, Fall of main coal
						Morgan, John, 24 Aug 1871, aged 45, Collier, Fall of roof at face
						Mullen, Hugh, 14 Sep 1881, aged 45, Stoker, He went down in the cage to get water in the shaft, and, after signalling to ascend, is supposed to have fallen off
						Mullen, James, 10 Feb 1875, aged 25, Collier, [Fall of coal] He was working off a pillar and a piece of coal fell over upon him. The seam was 9 feet thick
						Russell, William, 27 Nov 1875, aged 14, Driver, [Sundries Underground] Struck with the chain at the top of a self acting incline
						Unknown, -, 11 Aug 1885, Fall of roof. While redding; stoop and room
						Watson, Thomas, 31 Dec 1870, aged 40, Collier, Fall of roof

						12 names found

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

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Credits

Sources:

1864 Mines Inspectors Report, by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines
1871 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 653), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1875 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1499), Scotland, East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
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
OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website