Archaeology Notes

Event ID 850968

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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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.