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Pencaitland Colliery
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| Location: | Pencaitland 11½ miles [18 km] ESE of Edinburgh |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 66 Edinburgh, Penicuik and North Berwick) NT424686, 55° 54' 26" N, 2° 55' 16" W |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | 1944 |
| Owners: | 1923 - Woodhall Coal Co., Ltd. |
| Output: | 1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. |
| 1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1915 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| 1920 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. | |
| Employment: | 1905 - 61 (44 below, 17 surface) |
| 1910 - 177 (138 below, 39 surface) | |
| 1915 - 194 (163 below, 31 surface) | |
| 1920 - 226 (173 below, 53 surface) | |
| 1923 - 226 (173 below, 53 surface) | |
| 1933 - 200 (160 below, 40 surface) | |
| 1940 - 200 (160 below, 40 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1905 - Great Seam |
| 1910 - Gas, Great Seam, Jewel, Parrot | |
| 1915 - Diamond, Gas, Jewel | |
| 1920 - Diamond, Five Feet, Four Feet, Gas, Jewel, Three Feet | |
| Notes: | Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete! |
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Description
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None Found
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Cairns, Andrew, 30 Aug 1865, aged 36, Labourer, Went to rescue Duncan and fell beside him. Cairns worked at the same pit as Duncan and seeing him lying so near the surface he thought he was unwell and went down the ladder to assist him and was also suffocated [More information ...] | |||||
| Christie, William, 16 Nov 1911, aged 65, Fireman, Fall of roof in stoop road near face. Deceased while acting as fireman was laying rails in a road among stooping work, when, without warning, two tons of the rock roof fell upon him. The stone fell from between two breaks which were not visible before the accident | |||||
| Duncan, George, 30 Aug 1865, aged 52, Engineman, He went down in pit by means of a ladder to the top of the pumps about 18 feet from the surface and was suffocated by choke damp issuing from an old coal waste. He went down against orders [More information ...] | |||||
| Hogg, A., 12 Oct 1867, aged 41, Sinker, Killed in a sinking pit by the engine getting out of gear while he was descending | |||||
| 4 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.
Those names marked with ,
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more information on some of the fatalities shown above
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Pencaitland Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Pencaitland Colliery
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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
- 1911 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 6237), Scotland District (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
- 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
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