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Douglas Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Douglas Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Ponfeigh
Canmore ID 132075
Site Number NS83NE 20
NGR NS 8690 3550
NGR Description Centred NS 8690 3550
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Douglas
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS83NE 20 8690 3550
(Location cited as NS8689 3543). DOUGLAS Colliery (also known as PONFEIGH)
Location: Douglas
Previous Owners: Coltness Iron Company Limited
Types of Coal: Coking, House, Manufacturing and Steam
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1893-8
Year Closed: 1967
Year Abandoned: 1968
Average Workforce: 842
Peak Workforce: 1,031
Peak Year: 1952
Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts (Lady Mary Pit and Lord Dunglass Pit), each 238m deep. NCB erected a reinforced concrete tower winder.
Details in 1948: Output 1,000 tons per day, 260,000 tons per annum, stoop and room working. 886 employees. 3 screens for dry coal. Jig washer (Campbell, Binnie and Reid) [part of sorting and preparing coal prior to sale, a jig is a shaker conveyor often used to sort coal and if placed under water was known as a jig washer]. Baths (1932), canteen (full meal), morphia administration scheme, and physiotherapy. Steam and electricity, none from public supply. Report dated 12-08-1948.
Other Details: Closed in 1967 after fire. Coal said to be well suited to express railway locomotives.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
