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Afton No.1 Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Afton No.1 Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 130586
Site Number NS51SE 20
NGR NS 5835 1081
NGR Description Centred NS 5835 1081
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish New Cumnock
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
- Former County Ayrshire
NS51SE 20 centred 5835 1081 (centred on shafts)
AFTON No1 COLLIERY
Location: New Cumnock
Previous Owners: Lanemark Coal Company, then New Cumnock Collieries Limited
Types of Coal: Manufacturing and Cannel
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1871-3
Year Closed: 1948 (production ceased)
Average Workforce: 23
Peak Workforce: 26
Peak Year: 1948
Shaft/Mine Details: 1 shaft, 168m deep
Details in 1948: Output 30 tons per day, 10,249 per annum. 24 employees. No baths or canteen. Some steam power, all electricity from public supply. Report dated 09-08-1948. Report dated 09-08-1948.
Other Details: Afton No. 2 closed in 1914. Afton No. 1 transferred to National Coal Board (NCB) in 1948. Site of an experimental oil plant using Cannel coal in the 1930s. Associated brickworks operated until 1978.
Also listed in Scottish Collieries gazeteer under 'Licensed Mines in Ayrshire 1947-97' , licensee New Cumnock Collieries Limited (opened 1873, closed 1948).
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
