Lingerwood Colliery
Colliery (18th Century)
Site Name Lingerwood Colliery
Classification Colliery (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Newbattle Colliery; Lingerwood No.1 (Dicksons Shaft); Lingerwood No.2 (Engine Pit)
Canmore ID 132499
Site Number NT36SW 43
NGR NT 3370 6350
NGR Description centred on mining activity site
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Midlothian
- Parish Newbattle
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
NT36SW 43 3370 6350
Re-numbered. Originally mis-numbered as NT36SW 147.
(Location cited as NT 3365 6354). LINGERWOOD Colliery
Location: Newtongrange
Previous Owners: Lothian Coal Company
Types of Coal: Steam and House
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1798 ('Old Engine Pit')
Year Closed: 1967
Year Abandoned: 1982
Average Workforce: 727
Peak Workforce: 770
Peak Year: 1951
Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts, and one surface mine. No. 1 (Dickson's Shaft) 253m deep, 5.2m diameter and brick-lined, with electric winder, upcast for Lady Victoria. No. 2 (Engine Pit) downcast, 266m deep, rectangular shaft, with steam winder.
Details in 1948: Output 1,000 tons per day, 250,000 tons per annum. 603 employees. Coal washed and screened at Lady Victoria Colliery (NT36SW 22). First-aid room. Canteen at Lady Victoria. Electricity supplied from SE Scotland Electricity Board. Report dated 15-07-1948.
Other Details: Pneumatically-operated traversers and tipplers installed at surface for mine-car circuit in 1955. Re-organised in 1961. Baths for 798 men also served Lady Victoria. When Heriot Watt University's mining school was closed, its rescue station was first moved to Lingerwood, and eventually to its current location at Crossgates in Fife.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
Lingerwood House, for National Coal Board
PLANS:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh alts
Attic 2, Bin 22, Bag 2 Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson 1947
