Coal Mining History Resource Centre: 1873: Scottish Mining Website Part 1 - Argyllshire, Ayrshire, Clackmannan, Dumbarton & Dumfriesshire Part 2 - Edinburgh, Fife & Haddington Part 3 - Lanarkshire A - G Part 4 - Lanarkshire H - Z Part 5 - Linlithgow, Perth, Renfrewshire, Stirlingshire & Sutherland: 1880: Coal Mining History Resource Centre: 1889

Opencast coal mining continues in Scotland today, with around half of the UK's opencast mines found north of the border. Stephen Fraser works at newly reopened coal face in Monktonhall colliery ...

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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.

Scottish Mining Villages. Information on miners' lives and minign towns. Search for: Clackmannanshire. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, Francis H Groome, 1895 . Brucefield, an estate, with a mansion, in Clackmannan parish, Clackmannanshire. 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 ...

Coal mining in Auld Clackmannanshire. Do you remember the NCB. Nowadays, apart from the wagonroad, there is hardly any evidence of the coal mining era in auld Clackmannanshire. Coal was plentiful in the area and provided work for many but now it's been and gone . . . This is a short video in tribute to all miers but especially my grandad Wattie Gibb - This is a tribute to my grandfather who ...

Mine. Name and dates. Dollar Mine (1943-1973) Served by the Devon Valley Railway. Description. This coal mine was located east of Dollar station. The branch to the mine ran from the loop at the east end of the station. From 1958, this mine provided coal for Kincardine Power Station. (See Tillicoultry for photographs of a loaded coal train]]).

Devonside, a village in Tillicoultry parish, 3/4 mile SSE of Tillicoultry town.It adjoins a brick and tile work, and is near a coal mine. Pop. (1881) 479, (1891) 687. Kennet, a collier village, with a public school, in Clackmannan parish, Clackmannanshire, 1 mile ESE of Clackmannan town, and 1 1/4 SSW of Kincardine station. Kennet House, 1 mile SE of Clackmannan, is a handsome mansion of the ...

Kennet is a small former coal mining village in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.It is located 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) south-east of Clackmannan, by the Kincardine railway line.The village is a conservation area, designated by Clackmannanshire Council.. Kennet House, the seat of the Bruces of Kennet, was located to the west of the village (grid reference).

Coal Mining History Resource Centre: 1873: Scottish Mining Website Part 1 - Argyllshire, Ayrshire, Clackmannan, Dumbarton & Dumfriesshire Part 2 - Edinburgh, Fife & Haddington Part 3 - Lanarkshire A - G Part 4 - Lanarkshire H - Z Part 5 - Linlithgow, Perth, Renfrewshire, Stirlingshire & Sutherland: 1880: Coal Mining History Resource Centre: 1889

History of Scottish Mining and mining areas of Scotland including housing, health, mining accidents and disasters. ... 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 ...

Clackmannanshire, often called the Wee County, or more often, the ... Robert Burns. The Tower is now an impressive ruin, albeit unstable due to mining subsidence - see picture above.. Clackmannan is built with a Castle (Clackmannan Tower) at the high point (King's Seat Hill) to the west and the towns main street and market place running down along a ridge to the east. The early life of the ...

The Coal Authority holds coal mining data in a national database. This provides information on past and present coal mining. The Interactive Map Viewer and the Web Mapping Services are provided ...

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 interests of public safety. This would be through the ...

Photographs Of Devon (Clackmannanshire) (21 photos) Last updated September 27 th ... Major Mining Region. Devon No 1 & 2 Colliery Coal Colliery belongs to the Central Scotland region. See more: All coal collieries in United Kingdom (NS) All coal collieries in United Kingdom. Disclaimer: Mine exploring can be quite dangerous, but then again it can be alright, it all depends on the weather ...

Coal mining in Auld Clackmannanshire. Do you remember the NCB. Nowadays, apart from the wagonroad, there is hardly any evidence of the coal mining era in auld Clackmannanshire. Coal was plentiful in the area and provided work for many but now it's been and gone . . . This is a short video in tribute to all miers but especially my grandad Wattie Gibb - This is a tribute to my grandfather who ...

Clackmannanshire (/ k l æ k ˈ m æ n ə n ˌ ʃ ... The main industries are agriculture, brewing, and formerly coal mining. In 2006, permission was given for a waterfront development of the Docks area of Alloa, which has been in decline since the 1960s. [citation needed] There is a large glass works at Alloa. [citation needed] Transport. Alloa railway station. Alloa railway station reopened ...

Owen, J. S 1995 Coal Mining at Brora 1529-1974, Inverness Highland Libraries. SB. Ross, Rev. W 1794 The Old Statistical Account of Clyne. Skillen, B S 1990 Local dreams: the early working of the Brora Collieries. BN (41) 14-18. Townsend, B 1988 How the lure of .

For example, in one coal mine that has not been mined there were 349 deaths in just one year, 58 of which involved children under 14. Life for all those who worked underground was very hard. As a result Parliament published a report in 1842 that examined the state of coal mining, which was called the Mines Report. The shocking report stated that some children under five years of age were ...

There has been coal mining in Scotland for over a thousand years, operating in tens of thousands of pits. Scottish mining saw its peak in the early years of the twentieth century, during which 10% of the Scottish population was involved in the industry. Few detailed employment records exist from the period before nationalisation in 1947. However, there are many sources available which can shed ...

Category:Coal mines in Clackmannanshire. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. D Devon Colliery‎ (2 F) Media in category "Coal mines in Clackmannanshire" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Opencast - geograph.uk - 319872.jpg 640 × 424; 42 KB ...