Archaeology Notes

Event ID 776844

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS97NW 77 centred 9132 7815

REDDING Colliery

Location: Polmont

Previous Owners: James Nimmo & Company

Types of Coal: Steam and House

Sinking/Production Commenced: c.1894

Year Closed: 1958

Year Abandoned: 1959

Average Workforce: 235

Peak Workforce: 285

Peak Year: 1948

Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts, 88m and 64m deep, east shaft NS 9132 7816, west NS 9130 7816

Details in 1948: Output 300 tons per day, 82,500 tons per annum. 285 employees. No washer [no mechanised equipment for the wet cleaning of coal]. No baths, canteen (packed meals), first-aid, ambulance and doctors all at Falkirk Infirmary. Electricity supply DC, generated at colliery. Report dated 12-08-1948.

Other Details: Remembered for Scotland's worst flooding disaster on 25 September 1923 during which 66 men were trapped, only 14 being rescued alive.

M K Oglethorpe 2006.