Bannockburn Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bannockburn Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 132555
Site Number NS88NW 45
NGR NS 8395 8890
NGR Description Centred NS 8395 8890
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Stirling
- Parish St Ninians
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS88NW 45 centred 8395 8890
BANNOCKBURN Colliery
Location: Cowie
Previous Owners: Carron Company
Types of Coal: Coking, House and Steam (including navigation), later Upper Hirst
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1894
Year Closed: 1953
Year Abandoned: 1955
Average Workforce: 344
Peak Workforce: 563
Peak Year: 1947
Shaft/Mine Details: Two rectangular shafts each 293m deep (No. 1 NS 8396 8884, and No. 2 NS 8393 8885, concrete-lined). No. 3 Shaft (NS 8310 8879) added in 1902-3.
Details in 1948: Output 400 tons per day, 100,000 tons per annum. 415 employees. Baum box-type washer [equipment using water and compressed air in wet cleaning of coal]. Baths (1931), canteen and first-aid room. Electricity supplied from Pirnhall Mine (NS88NW 46). Report dated 18-08-1948.
Other Details: Drift mine opened in 1953 and successfully worked the Upper Hirst seam until 1964.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
