Archaeology Notes

Event ID 775485

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT36NE 164.00 3464 6585

EASTHOUSES Colliery

Location: Dalkeith

Previous Owners: Lothian Coal Company

Types of Coal: House and Steam

Sinking/Production Commenced: 1909

Year Closed: 1969

Year Abandoned: 1971

Average Workforce: 818

Peak Workforce: 1,030

Peak Year: 1965

Shaft/Mine Details: 3 surface mines, No. 1, No. 2 and Simpson Mine, all 1:2 incline. No. 2 mine was originally main airway, but was enlarged to accommodate a new haulage system. Ventilation/fan at mouth of Simpson Mine.

Details in 1948: Output 690 tons per day, 172,500 tons per annum. 633 employees. Output was taken in hutches by endless-rope haulage, and later in mine cars hauled by locomotives, to be washed and screened at Lady Victoria Colliery (NT36SW 22). Canteen, first-aid room, baths planned. Electricity supplied from Lady Victoria Colliery. Report dated 15-08-48.

Other Details: Coal sent to Lady Victoria to be screened [mechanically grading coal by size using an arrangement of vibrating or fixed bars or perforated steel sheets]. New steam-driven balanced-rope haulage installed in 1949. Re-organised in 1955, included the introduction of underground diesel haulage.

M K Oglethorpe 2006.