Redding Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Redding Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 132587
Site Number NS97NW 77
NGR NS 9132 7815
NGR Description Centred NS 9132 7815
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Falkirk
- Parish Grangemouth
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS97NW 77 centred 9132 7815
REDDING Colliery
Location: Polmont
Previous Owners: James Nimmo & Company
Types of Coal: Steam and House
Sinking/Production Commenced: c.1894
Year Closed: 1958
Year Abandoned: 1959
Average Workforce: 235
Peak Workforce: 285
Peak Year: 1948
Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts, 88m and 64m deep, east shaft NS 9132 7816, west NS 9130 7816
Details in 1948: Output 300 tons per day, 82,500 tons per annum. 285 employees. No washer [no mechanised equipment for the wet cleaning of coal]. No baths, canteen (packed meals), first-aid, ambulance and doctors all at Falkirk Infirmary. Electricity supply DC, generated at colliery. Report dated 12-08-1948.
Other Details: Remembered for Scotland's worst flooding disaster on 25 September 1923 during which 66 men were trapped, only 14 being rescued alive.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
