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Manor Powis Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Manor Powis Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Manor Powis 1, 2 And 3
Canmore ID 132571
Site Number NS89SW 76
NGR NS 8287 9477
NGR Description Centred on Shaft No.1 at NS8287 9477
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Stirling
- Parish Logie (Stirling)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS89SW 76 centred on Shaft No.1 8287 9477
MANOR POWIS 1, 2 and 3 Colliery
Location: Causewayhead, Stirling
Previous Owners: Manor Powis Coal Company
Types of Coal: Anthracite and Steam, later Upper Hirst
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1911-14
Year Closed: 1972
Year Abandoned: 1973
Average Workforce: 802
Peak Workforce: 985
Peak Year: 1963
Shaft/Mine Details: 3 shafts, No. 1 373m (NS 8287 9477), No. 2 373m (NS 8289 9477), and No. 3 97m (NS8292 9478)
Details in 1948: Output 647 tons per day, 177,900 tons per annum. 600 employees. 3 Baum-type washers [type of mechanical equipment for the wet cleaning of coal as part of coal preparation prior to sale]. Baths (1932, for 1,216 men, with 64 shower cubicles, the first two-storeyed baths in Scotland), canteen, ambulance room. All electricity supplied by Scottish Central Electricity Board. Report dated 13-08-1948.
Other Details: Said to produce the finest anthracite in Scotland. Shafts 1 and 2 both had wooden headgear, No. 2 thought to have been salvaged from a pit in Cambuslang. Both replaced with steel structures in 1931. National Coal Board (NCB) reconstruction in mid 1950s, and included the construction of a tower-mounted winder. A satellite drift mine was opened in 1954 to work the Upper Hirst seam, and did so successfully, supplying Kincardine Power Station for many years.
RCAHMS 2006
