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Tranent Colliery
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| Location: | Tranent, Haddingtonshire 10½ miles [17 km] E of Edinburgh |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 66 Edinburgh, Penicuik and North Berwick) NT418726, 55° 56' 37" N, 2° 55' 52" W |
| Opened: | |
| Closed: | 1910 |
| Owners: | H. F. Caddell |
| Snowdowne and Co. | |
| James Waldie and Sons | |
| Edinburgh Collieries, Ltd. | |
| Output: | 1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. |
| 1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. | |
| 1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. | |
| 1905 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. | |
| 1910 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing, Steam. Fireclay. | |
| Employment: | 1894 - 226 (196 below, 30 surface) |
| 1896 - 204 (165 below, 39 surface) | |
| 1900 - 207 (172 below, 35 surface) | |
| 1905 - 328 (278 below, 50 surface) | |
| 1910 - 254 (209 below, 45 surface) | |
| Seams Worked: | 1905 - Four Feet, Splint |
| 1910 - Four Feet, Three Feet |
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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!
 | Banks, George, 20 Feb 1855, Fall of roof at face of working | |||||
| Cuninghame, Thomas, 31 Oct 1906, aged 10, Schoolboy, While the colliery locomotive was approaching the weighbridge with a train of loaded waggons the boy attempted to jump on a waggon of the moving train, and missing his hold fell on the rails and the last waggon wheels passed over him [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident] | |||||
| Dow, James, 31 Aug 1854, Fell off a hanging scaffold to the bottom of the pit, the crane getting out of gear [More information ...] | |||||
| Porteous, Thomas, 28 Nov 1900, aged 50, Miner, Deceased was taking a five yard cut off the inbye end of a stoop in a 5 ft. seam. He had holed through on the old drift adjoining, and appeared to have been crawling up into it in order to ascertain how much coal he had still to take out, when a large stone fell upon his head and shoulders, killing him instantly | |||||
| Stewart, Walker, 31 Aug 1854, Fell off a hanging scaffold to the bottom of the pit, the crane getting out of gear [More information ...] | |||||
Unknown, -, 31 Dec 1885, Collier, Fall of roof. At face ; stoop and room | ||||||
| 6 names found | ||||||
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Tranent Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Tranent Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1854 Mines Inspectors Report, by Robert Williams, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1855 Mines Inspectors Report, by Thomas Evans, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 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
- 1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), East Scotland District (No. 1) by J. B. Atkinson, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
- 1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), East Scotland District (No. 1) by Robert McLaren, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
- 1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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