Alloa Coal Company - Wikipedia
The Alloa Coal Company was founded as a partnership in 1835 between William Mitchell, John Moubray, John Craich and David Ramsay. The partners obtained a lease to mine coal and ironstone on the lands of the Earl of Mar in Clackmannanshire.
Clackmannanshire – Scottish Mining Villages
Coal is worked on the estate. Coalsnaughton, a collier village of Clackmannanshire, in the parish and 1 mile S by E of the town of Tillicoultry. It has a public school. Pop. (1891) 888.
Coal Mining Risk Assessments - Clackmannanshire
The High Risk areas may contain coal mining legacy issues such as mine entries or shallow coal workings. Consequently, for certain types of application, the Coal Authority would require an assessment to take place of the potential risks to the proposed development and how these risks would be satisfactorily mitigated or managed, in the ...
Clackmannanshire - Scottish Mining Website
Coal is worked on the estate. Coalsnaughton, a collier village of Clackmannanshire, in the parish and 1 mile S by E of the town of Tillicoultry. It has a public school. Pop. (1891) 888.
Clackmannan - Scottish Mining Website
The Alloa Coal Company, Limited, have four collieries in all in Clackmannanshire, viz., at Alloa, Sauchie, Devon, Tillicoultry, and Sheriffyards, and two in Stirlingshire, viz., at Bannockburn and Carnock. 2. The total number of workers employed is 2794 :- (a) 2180 below ground, and (6) 614 above ground.
Devon Colliery Accident - Clackmannan - 1897 - Northern ...
The colliery was the property of Alloa Coal Company and was one of four collieries owned by the Company. Six lives were lost when there was a rupture of a …
Tillicoultry Colliery | Canmore
Shaft/Mine Details: 2 surface mines. Details in 1948: Output 220 tons per day, 55,000 tons per annum. 98 employees. Baum-type washer. Baths (1938, for 70 men), canteen. AC electricity from Devon Colliery (National Coal Board NCB) [NS89NE 40.01]. Report dated 25-08-1948.
A Brief History of Mining in Dollar
EARLY MINING/TRADE The earliest record of mining in Clackmannanshire came from the Church Legate Aeneas Silvus, who was later to become Pope Pius II, during the reign of James I …
Central Scottish Coalfields - Northern Mine Research Society
226 rows · When the coal industry was nationalised in 1947, there were 225 collieries in Scotland; …
Tillicoultry - Wikipedia
As the textile and coal mining industries declined, Tillicoultry became a popular commuter town. Many of the mill buildings have been converted into residential accommodation. Tillicoultry railway station, on the Devon Valley Railway was situated opposite Devonvale Hall, and closed in 1964.
Coal Mining Records | National Records of Scotland
Coal mining is probably Scotlands oldest major industry. Mines on monastic estates, such as Carriden and Preston, are mentioned in early charters. For the later period customs accounts reveal...
In pictures: Scotland’s lost coal mining industry | The ...
Oct 02, 2015 · The modern mining industry was born in 1947 when every pit in the UK was nationalised under Clement Attlee’s Labour government. The subsequent creation of the National Coal Board aimed to improve...
What life is like working in underground coal mines in the ...
In the US, coal mining is a shrinking industry. In 1923, there were about 883,000 coal miners; today there are about 53,000.; Working in coal mines is dangerous — miners have to deal with toxic ...
coal mining | Definition, History, Types, & Facts | Britannica
Coal mining, extraction of coal deposits from the surface of Earth from underground. Coal has been used since the Bronze Age, 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, and was the basic energy source that fueled the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Your Scottish Coal Mining ...
The aim of this booklet is to help you research your Scottish coal mining ancestors and the conditions in which they lived and worked. There has been coal mining in Scotland for over a thousand years, operating in tens of thousands of pits. Scottish mining stone its peak in the early years of the twentieth century, during which 10% of the
List of coal mines UK 1880.
24 Seaton Fire Clay Mine, Workington, Jospeh Cope and Co. 25 Whitehaven, Whitehaven, Earl of Lonsdale. 26 Whitehaven Fire Clay Mine, Saint Bees, The Executors of the late James Dees. 27 Wythemoor, Workington, Wythemoor Colliery Co. WESTMORELAND. l. Borrowdale (North Stainmoor), Brough, North Stainmoor Co.