Whitehill Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Whitehill Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Rosewell
Canmore ID 132549
Site Number NT26SE 71
NGR NT 2865 6205
NGR Description Centred
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/132549
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Lasswade
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
NT26SE 71 2865 6205
WHITEHILL Colliery (also known as Rosewell)
Location: Rosewell
Previous Owners: Lothian Coal Company
Types of Coal: Steam and House
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1850
Year Closed: 1961
Year Abandoned: 1962
Average Workforce: 562
Peak Workforce: 590
Peak Year: 1950
Shaft/Mine Details: 3 shafts, each 91m deep, and 1 surface mine
Details in 1948: Output 640 tons per day, 160,000 tons per annum. 495 employees. Campbell Binny washer. Baths (1936), first-aid room, canteen. Most electrcitiy DC and generated at colliery, some being bought from SE Scotland Electricity Board. Report date 15-07-1948.
Other Details: Possibly the first mine in Scotland to use coal cutters powered by compressed air. National Coal Board (NCB) mechanised underground haulage as part of reconstruction in 1954. Associated brickworks operated from c.1870 until 1977. Rosewell village, which contains many brick terraces of miners' houses, is one of the most important surviving mining villages in Scotland.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
Whitehill Colliery Baths, Lothian, The scheme provides a prominent frontage onthe public highway. Opened in November ,1936.
Miners' Welfare Fund, 1937.