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Quarter (No.1 And No.5a) Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Quarter (No.1 And No.5a) Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 132400
Site Number NS75SW 30
NGR NS 7385 5165
NGR Description centred on depicted mining remains
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/132400
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Hamilton (South Lanarkshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Hamilton
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS75SW 30 centred 7385 5165
(Location cited as NS 7385 5173 (centred on Shaft No. 1) and NS 7413 5148 (surface mine 5A)).
QUARTER Colliery
Location: Quarter, Hamilton
Previous Owners: United Collieries Limited
Types of Coal: Steam and House
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1815
Year Closed: 1951
Year Abandoned: 1960
Average Workforce: 106
Peak Workforce: 120
Peak Year: 1947
Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts, Quarter1 at NS 7386 5173, and Quarter 2 at NS 7447 5172 (NS75SW 31). Surface mine at Quarter 5 (NS 7413 5148), known as 5A, sunk in 1947, but closed in 1950.
Details in 1948: Output 115 tons per day, 27,445 tons per annum, pillar and stall working. 98 employees. Plate tables for screening [mechanically driven arrangement of fixed bars or perforated steel sheet for grading coal by size]. No washer [no equipment for wet cleaning of coal as part of coal preparation]. No baths, canteen or medical facilities, but nurse in village. DC electricity, none from public supply. Report dated 19-08-1948.
Other Details: Quarter 1, 2 (NS75SW 31) and 5 were linked by a triangular arrangement of surface mineral railways (between 1 and 5), and a tramway between 5 and 2 (NS75SW 31).
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
