Archaeology Notes

Event ID 712118

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56NE 233 centred 5720 6963

This mine was depicted on the 1:10560 scale Ordanance Survey map (Provisional Edition 1958).

Information from RCAHMS (MMD) 20 August 1998.

GARSCUBE Colliery [also known as GILSHIE]

Location: Maryhill, Glasgow

Previous Owners: Summerlee Iron Company until 1897. Re-opened in 1916 by Messrs. Dron & Company until 1921. Thereafter, the Garscube Coal Company Limited

Types of Coal: originally Ironstone, Steam, House and Manufacturing

Sinking/Production Commenced: c.1850

Year Closed: 1966

Year Abandoned: 1967

Average Workforce: 203

Peak Workforce: 311

Peak Year: 1963

Shaft/Mine Details: 2 earlier shafts, 27m (No. 2 NS 5720 6963, No. 3 NS 5724 6962), surface mine (NS 5727 6968). No. 1 (downcast) 1 in 4, 116m, brick and concrete reinforced circle girders, 10' x 8', direct rope haulage. No. 2 (upcast) same dimensions and construction as No. 1, but 110m and 1 in 3, balanced double-drum direct haulage.

Details in 1948: Output: nil. Under reconstruction in 1948, mine driving and development in progress. 110 employees. No washer [mechanical equipment for the wet cleaning of coal as apart of coal preparation prior to sale], no baths. Canteen, first-aid room. Electricity supplied by Glasgow Corporation. Report dated 19-08-1948.

MK Oglethorpe 2006.