Collieries and Minerals
Records:
Discovery of Valuable Minerals —
We have just learned that the Shotts Iron Company, who are lessees of the minerals on the estate of Polkemmet in the neighbourhood of Bathgate, belonging to Sir Willia…
Source: Falkirk Herald. - Read moreVISIT TO TORBANEHILL.—ITS MINERALS.
FIRST ARTICLE.
We lately paid a visit to Torbanehill. Unknown to yourself, reader, you have an interest in the place, for that brilliant jet of gas, as well as the P…
Source: Montrose Review. - Read moreREPORT BY J.B. WILLIAMSON, M.E.
By request of Henry Aitken, Esq ., on behalf of the directors of the Benhar Coal Company ( Limited ) , I have made an examination of the workings and working plans of t…
Source: The Scotsman. - Read moreTERRIFIC COLLIERY BOILER EXPLOSION AT HARTHILL
SEVERAL MEN INJURED
A boiler explosion which occurred at the Balbakie Pit of the Coltness Iron Company on Wednesday evening has, though happily unattended…
THE MODERN HISTORY OF BATHGATE MINES.
The modern history of the Bathgate mines is much easier to write than the ancient. Whereas in the ancient, one has to look here and there for the tracings of old …
Source: Linlithgowshire Gazette 14th March 1902. - Read moreNew Developments at the Collieries belonging to Messrs Gavin Paul & Sons, Limited.
The MOSSIDE COLLIERY, and the RIDDOCHHILL COLLIERY, belonging to this Company, are situated about 1 mile to the s…
Source: West Lothian Courier. - Read moreBALBARDIE COLLIERY CO. Ltd
A RETROSPECT.
For over hundred years now Bathgate has been connected with the coal industry, and it said that considerable portion of ground which Bathgate stands is honeycom…
Source: Linlithgowshire Gazette. - Read moreThe Passing of Balbardie Coal Company.
SOME INTERESTING HISTORICAL FACTS.
THE OLD PITS IN BATHGATE.
Since the announcement in the "Courier" of the proposal to sell the works of Balbardie Colli…
Source: West Lothian Courier. - Read more