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Southfield Colliery
| Location: |
Shotts
10 miles [16 km] NNE of Lanark
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| Map Ref: |
(Sheet 65 Falkirk and Linlithgow) NS920591, 55° 48' 47" N, 3° 43' 25" W |
| Opened: |
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| Closed: |
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| Owners: |
Shotts Iron Co., Ltd. |
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1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) |
| Output: |
1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Industrial, Manufacturing, Steam. (125,000 tons) |
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1954 - Coal: Household, Steam. Blaes. |
| Employment: |
1920 - 33 (24 below, 9 surface) [Sinking] |
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1947 - 510 (422 below, 88 surface) |
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1954 - 448 (371 below, 77 surface) |
| Seams Worked: |
1954 - Main |
| 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!
| | |  | | | | Crichton, John, 11 Nov 1877, aged 42, Roadsman, Suffocated by heat and steam, &c., in a drift, used for return airway and smoke and steam from engines, while examining it |
| | | | | | | Hamilton, Gavin, 21 Feb 1878, Wagoner, Squeezed between a wagon and pit-bank wall |
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2 names found |
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
 a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Southfield Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Southfield Colliery
Credits
Sources:
- 1877 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 2003), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1878 Mines Inspectors Report (C 2321), Scotland East District by Ralph Moore, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1920 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 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
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