Public Meetings of the Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd

There is to be set and........immediately or at Whitsunday....such number of years as parties can agree, the going coal at Breich belonging to Sir David Cunynghame of Livingstone, Baroner, lying twel…

ADJOURNED SALE OF LANDS IN THE COUNTY OF EDINBURGH,

To be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffcehouse, Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 8th day of July 1775, betwixt the hours of one and two…

AN ESTATE AND FREEHOLD QUALIFICATION IN WEST LOTHIAN, FOR SALE BY PRIVATE BARGAIN

If not sold before Wednesday the 29th day of April curt. then to be exposed by public auction, in John's Coffeeho…

FARM IN WEST LOTHIAN, to be sold by private bargain at a very low price

REMAINING LOT OF NORTH BRIECH ESTATE, viz, the WES'I'ER FARM, two miles south-west of Livingstone. and one mile from t…

TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE BARGAIN,

THE ESTATE of WESTWOOD, consisting of the following Farms: Easter and Wester Breich, Dykes, Auchinhard, City, and Stepend , containing about 500 English acres, situated …

MIDDLE BRIECH. - To be Let for such term of'years as shall be agreed upon, and entered to at Martinmas 1806,

THE LANDS of MIDDLE BRIECH, situated in the the parish of Livington, about 5 miles wes…

FARM OF BRIECHMILL TO BE LET.

To LET, on a lease for nineteen years, and entered to at Martinmas 1817, THE LANDS and FARM of BRIECH- MILL, with the CORN and BARLEY MILL there to belonging, lying in th…

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC ROUP,

Upon Monday the 8th day of May next, at one o'clock, upon the ground, if not previously disposed of by private bargain, THAT valuable FIELD of GROUND, known by the name…

LANDS IN WEST-LOTHIAN FOR SALE

Upset Price Reduced

To be SOLD by public roup, within the Old Signet Hall, Royal Excenge, Edinburgh, on Wednesday 6th April next, at two o'clock afternoon, either in…

Du Buisson's Patent

Download full document 215336, page 327

EXCERPTS from SPECIFICATION (1845, No. 10,726) of Michel Antoine Bertin Burin Du Buisson, for Furnace Apparatus, and Processes of the Di…

TO BE LET, For such a term of Years as may be agreed on, THE FARM and LANDS of WESTER BRIECH, in the Parish of Livingstone, as the same were lately possessed by Mr. Robert Shanks, situated about a mi…

IMPORTANT TO AGRICULTURALISTS

CARBONACEOUS and AMMONIACAL MANURE

£3 per Ton at the Works Weymouth, superior to guano and all other animalised earthy fossil saline or compost manures.

The manufactory at …

Bituminous Shale Co. Advertisements

Excellent Manure

MR. A. R. MARTIN, of the North Wales Chronicle Office Castle-street, Bangor, begs to announce to Land Owners, Gentlemen, and Tenant-farmers, that he…

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…

These works have lately been erected Boghead, near Bathgate. They belong to Messrs J. Young &Co of Manchester ; but being conducted strictly as a secret work," little known in the district r…

Winding up of the Bituminous Shale Co.

Tuesday March 7

The Bituminous Shale Company v Cassell re the Joint Stock Companies Winding up Acts 1848 and 1849 and The Bituminous Shale Company ex parte Green

P…

FARMS TO BE LET.

FARM of CITY, in the Parish of Livingstone, near West Calder, containing about 100 Imperial acres, the greater portion of which is tile-drained; and The FARM of BRIECH DYKES, part of …

VISIT 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…

The Bankruptcy of William Brown & Co.

Bankruptcy Proceedings, Sheriff Court – Tuesday 5th January

EXAMINATION OF WILLIAM BROWN & CO.

The bankrupt was examined today before Sheriff Sir Archibald …

MINERAL FIELD TO BE LET.

SEAMS of SMITHY and other COALS, FIRECLAY, IRONSTONE, and LIMESTONE, in the Estate of Westwood, extending to upwards of 230 acres, lying in the Parish of Livingstone, and abou…

Paraffin lamp manufacturers in Scotland

"Paraffin Light Manufacturers", as listed in Glasgow Post Office Directories

1860 and 1861

• none

1862

• Rowatt Thomas & Sons, 253 Argyll St., D Anderson …

The opening of George Bennie & Co.'s foundry

Perhaps there is no city in the kingdom the commercial enterprise of which has been so rapidly developed as that of Glasgow. We do not require to …

Binney & Co. v. Clydesdale Chemical Co.

Selected extracts relating to oil operations in Dorset.

Report of Jury Trial

Tried before the Lord President and Jury, Edinburgh, November 1860.

Evidence for t…

MINERALS TO BE LET.

GAS COAL, BITUMINOUS shale, HOUSEHOLD; and SMITHY COAL, and OTHER MINERALS, in part of the Estate of Houston, the Parish of Uphall and County of Linlithgow, adjoining the Edinburgh…

DESIRABLE FARM LINLITHGOWSHIRE TO BE LET.

THE FARM of WESTER BRIECH, in the Parish of Livingstone, County of Linlithgow, distant about a mile from the villages of Blackburn and West Calder, and three …

St. Saviour's Board of Works

Application to the Metropolitan Board for a licence to store petroleum.

Notice of the application to the Metropolitan Board for a licence to store petroleum, made by M…

New Hydro Carbon Oil from Petroleum

Correspondence

To the Editor of the Sanitary Reporter

Sir

I have read your first number and from the character it appears to assume I think it may become a very conven…

PROSPECTUS

THE LIVERPOOL AND RAMSEY OIL REFINING AND CHEMICAL WORKS COMPANY. (LIMITED.)

Capital £40,000. Shares of £5 each. Deposit £1 per Share application, and £1 on allotment.

DIRECTORS.

• T. C. Gibson,…

Young & others v. Fernie & others

Selected extracts relating to oil operations in Dorset.

Young v. Fernie was the last, the longest, and the most renowned of a series of court actions pursued b…

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT (Before Vice-Chancellor STUART.)

Selected extracts including statements for the defence.

Friday 22nd April 1864

Mr. Ebenezer Waugh Fernie, examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

I…

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT (Before Vice-Chancellor STUART.)

Selected extracts from the famous court case that provide descriptions of oil production from adapted coke ovens at various sites in South…

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT (Before Vice-Chancellor STUART.)

Selected extracts from the famous court case that provide descriptions of oil production from adapted coke ovens at various sites in South…

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT (Before Vice-Chancellor STUART.)

Selected extracts including the opening summary of charges.

Monday 29th February 1864

Mr Grove (for Young, the plainiff)

In 1861 it was found…

MINERAL OIL FIELD TO BE LET.

A MINERAL FIELD, of about 230 Acres, containing Several Seams of Superior Bituminous Shale, with Smithy and other Coals, Fireclay, Ironstone, aud Limestone, in the Estate …

The trade in mineral oil is the hope of North Wales. The discovery of cannel coal near Chester has already given a wonderful impulse to mining enterprise, and the success of the American oil works at…

The following memorial has been presented to Sir George Grey by Lord Richard Grosvenor, MP. for Flintshire :—

To; The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State…

The Shale Districts

The history of manufactures contains few more striking examples of the successful prosecution of commercial enterprise than those presented to us in the rise and progress of the ex…

A description of Addiewell Oil Works under construction

In our previous article on the shale district, we showed that Bathgate owes its prosperity to the discovery of the Boghead mineral. Fifteen year…

The Shale District of West Calder

In our previous article on the shale district, we showed that Bathgate owes its prosperity to the discovery of the Boghead mineral. Fifteen years' steady and uni…

"Looker-on," in " Rylands' Iron Trade Circular,"' November 11, 1865, states that " having some personal experience of petroleum, its discovery, its raising, and its…

Alarming Fire near Port Dundas

Man Burned to death

Yesterday afternoon, about half-past one o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in the premises of the British Asphalte Company, asphalte manufactur…

"Struck Ile"; or the Scotch Petrolia No.II

Two weeks ago we pointed out, in a very cursory manner, the extent, the importance, and prospects of the Paraffin Oil Trade in Scotland; and we now…

"Struck Ile"; or the Scotch Petrolia No.II

Two weeks ago we pointed out, in a very cursory manner, the extent, the importance, and prospects of the Paraffin Oil Trade in Scotland; and we now…

A fellow passenger in the train from Birmingham to Chester tells me of his father mentioning the old Lord Dundonald (father of the Lord Cochrane) as making experiments on coal at Tipton, and his live…

Fire at the West Calder Oil Works

A fire broke out on Wednesday morning in the West Calder Oil Works, managed by Mr. A. M. Fell. The fire was first observed about seven o'clock on Wednesday morni…

Action against the North British Oil & Candle Co.

At the Northumberland Assizes, the Court was occupied the greater part of the last two days in trying the case of Murray and Another v The North B…

A Visit to the Forth Bank Chemical Works

The Forth Bank Works are situated in the lower part or outskirts of the ancient royal burgh of Stirling, on one of the tongues of land formed by the many links…

A Visit to the Forth Bank Chemical Works

The Forth Bank Works are situated in the lower part or outskirts of the ancient royal burgh of Stirling, on one of the tongues of land formed by the many links…

HOUSE OF LORDS - Monday, 12th March 1866.

(Before the Marquis of BATH (Chairman), Earl CAWDOR, Viscount LIPFORD, Earl PORTARLINGTON and Lord OVERSTONE)

Selected extracts of an unsuccessful appeal to th…

A preliminary and influential meeting of the oil manufacturers of North Wales, was held yesterday week, at the Black Lion Hotel, Mold, for the purpose of considering the practicability of establishin…

SALE BY MR. PICKERING. LEASEHOLD PROPERTY AT COED-TALON TRYDDYN, NEAR MOLD, AND GROUND TO BE SOLD by AUCTION by Mr PICKERING at Mr Parry's, the Feather's Inn, Coed Talon, on Wednesday, the …

The Kinning Park foundry, Glasgow

In our impression of the 22nd of June we published an illustration of the apparatus for the manufacture of coal oil erected for Lord Dudley, at Fence Houses, near Dur…

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH WREXHAM, CHESTER, &c. —

On Monday afternoon a meeting was held at the Pontblyddyn Inn to consider the conditions upon which the Electric and International Telegraph …

On the Manufacturing of Coal Oil as conducted in North Wales

CHEMISTS' ASSOCIATION

(A. Norman Tate was a member of the Liverpool Geological Society, and worked for the Coppa Oil Co. Ltd.. In 1863 …

Holywell County Court - Tuesday, before R. Vaughan Williams, Esq., judge.

Claim for Court Fees. — Mr William Pierce, brewer, Bagillt, sued Mr Alfred Wood, late manager of the Bagillt Oil Company, Limi…

P.C. Lawley and the River Alyn Report

To the Editor of the Wrexham Advertiser.

Sir, — My attention has just been directed to a report by Edward Lawley, inspector of nuisances. Gresford, published in yo…

To the Editor of the Wrexham Advertiser.

Sir, — My attention has just been directed to a report by Edward Lawley, inspector of nuisances. Gresford, published in your paper of last Saturday. It include…

Extract from: Report of the Coal Commission to enquire as to the quantity of coal at present consumed in various branches of manufacture..." - appointed 7th July 1866.

List of Cannel and Shale Oi…

From Ure's Dictionary of Arts. Manufactures and Mines, Vol III, Sixth Edition, 1867

This article from Ure's Dictionary is signed "WMW". The Birmingham Journal of 11th May 1867, in …

The London, Leeswood, and Erith Oil and Mineral Company treated their workmen at the Pontblyddyn Oil and Coal Works to a substantial dinner on Saturday last, when between 60 and 70 workmen assembled …

The Bankruptcy of Lester, Wyllie & Co.

Bankruptcy Court – Yesterday, (Before Sheriff Bell)

Examination of Lester, Wyllie & Co. The partners of the bankrupt firm, viz., Wm. Lester, residing at C…

The Bankruptcy of James Palmer & Co.

Bankruptcy Court – Yesterday, (Before Sheriff Strathearn)

Examination in the sequestration of James Palmer & Co. Paraffin Oil Distillers, Crown Point Oil Wo…

North Staffordshire Railway v. Ward

ln this cause Mr. E. Tennant appeared tor the North Staffordshire Railway Company, who were the plaintiffs, and Mr. Sutton appeared for the defendant, Mr. Henry War…

1868 - Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory

HAWARDEN - under "Oil Manufacturers"

• Turner, Joseph & Co. (and railway greases and lubricating compound) Chemical Works Queens Fer…

The plaintiffs in this action sought to recover £17 10s. 3d. balance of account due by defendants for grease. —Mr C. Parry appeared for plaintiffs; Mr Roper represented the defendant Lavender.

Mr Parr…

Edward Henry Taylor was brought before the Rev. Jenkin Davies, on Wednesday, charged with stealing a quantity of gas piping at Coed Talon.

Richard Claney said he was the landlord of the Coach and Hors…

In 1865 we supplied our readers with a series of articles describing in full detail, and with illustrative engravings, the various mineral oil works of Flintshire. In the number for November 4, 1865,…

To the Editor of the Wrexham Advertiser.

Sir, — Three years ago those engaged in the coal oil trade in Flintshire had the opportunity of making very large profits - profits which were false in every s…

The Bankruptcy of Methil Paraffin Oil Co.

Bankruptcy Court - Yesterday

Sheriff Hamilton and John Arnot, of the Methil Paraffin Oil Company, appeared for examination. There were present Mr. F.H. Carter …

BROXBURN BRUTAL OUTRAGE—MAN KILLED.

On Saturday night, about ten o'clock, a most dastardly outrage was committed in the village of Broxburn upon man named Docherty. It seems that about the time s…

Fearful Accident at a Shale Pit near Bathgate

Eight Men Burned to Death

One of the most disastrous accidents that has occurred for many years in connection with any mine in Scotland took place at the B…

Uphall Fire

The large works at Uphall, belonging to the Uphall Mineral Oil Company, to Messrs P. M'Lagan, Esq., M.P.; Edward Meldrum, Esq. of Dechmont ; and George Simpson, Esq. of Benhar, have h…

Poisoning of the River Alyn

......The summons was then withdrawn, and the charge against Mr. William Beale Marston, of the Oil Works, Coed Talon, was then taken. Mr. Marston, at the outset of the case…

Cowie's Trustee's v. The Airdrie Mineral Oil Co. Ltd.

JURY TRIALS – FIRST DIVISION (Before the Lord President)

This case was commence yesterday.

George Cowie, coalmaster, Airdrie, deceased, wa…

DESCENT INTO A SHALE PIT.

By far the largest shale work in the United Kingdom is that of James Young & Co., whose manufacturing premises at Addiewell have been planted in the very heart of the sha…

On Thursday evening week about thirty of the employees of the Coppa and Plasymhowys oil works assembled at the Crown Inn, Pontblyddyn, to pay a tribute of respect to a fellow workman.

An excellent sup…

Barony Parochial Board v. R. Binning & Sons

Decision in the Nuisance Case near Alexandra Park

The case of the Barony Parochial Board v. R. Binning & Sons, paraffin oil and coal-tar distillers, …

Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the several matters relating to coal in the United Kingdom. H.M. Stationery Office 1871

CANNEL COAL AND BITUMINOUS SHALES.

It is important to give,…

Alleged Pollution of the River Alyn

Mold Petty Sessions, before J. Scott-Bankes, Major Roper & T.W. Eyton

Bush v. Plas y Mhowys Oil Company.

Mr. Bridgman, of Chester, appeared on behalf of the "…

The Dalmeny Oil Company (Limited)

Capital £27,000 in 2700 shares of £10 each.

Payable £2 per Share on application: £4 on Allotment: and the remainder in future call: not sooner

than three months after t…

Prospectus of the Mid-Lothian Mineral Oil Co. Ltd.

Incorporated under the Companies' Acts 1852 and 1867. Capital £75,000. First issue £50,000, in 10,000 Shares of £6 each, payable as under:— 10s.…

Mineral oil works in Russia

Extensive contract for apparatus

It is but a very short period since the process of distilling oil from coal and other bituminous minerals had an air of novelty and an attra…

The Padeswood Retort Case

Humphreys v . Milthrope —Mr Roper for the plaintiff and Mr Cartwright, of Chester, for the defendant.

Mr. Roper in his opening statement said the case had been before His Hono…

The development of the mineral oil manufacture forms one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of modern industry. Only a quarter of a century has elapsed since attention was directed to the…

AMONG THE OIL WORKS OF SCOTLAND—NO. II. Young's paraffin oil company's works, Addiewell.

AFTER a run from Glasgow of about thirty miles, and an easy walk, let our reader imagine himself perc…

AMONG THE OIL WORKS OF SCOTLAND—NO. II. Young's paraffin oil company's works, Addiewell.

AFTER a run from Glasgow of about thirty miles, and an easy walk, let our reader imagine himself perc…

THE WEST CALDER OIL COMPANY (LIMITED.)

Incorporated under the Companies’ Acts, 1862 and 1867. CAPITAL, £160,000, IN 16,000 SHARES OF £10 EACH, PAYABLE AS UNDER:-

• £1 per Share on Application.
• £2 per Shar…

SERIOUS ASSAULT IN A SHALE PIT.

At the Sheriff Summary Court, Edinburgh, on Saturday, before Sheriff Hallard, Donald McKay and Alexander McKenna were charged with assaulting John Demsie, signalman in …

The Scottish Mineral Oil & Coal Company (Limited)

NORTH COBINSHAW and BAADS ESTATES, Edinburghshire and Lanarkshire

Incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867.

CAPITAL £150,000 in 15,000 s…

West Calder Oil Co. v. Fell

conjoined with Fell v. West Calder Oil Company

In the first of these conjoined actions, which is at the instance of the West Calder Oil Company, and Mr. Lewis Thorpe Merrow …

THEFT or METAL . — Before Sheriff Hamilton, at the Sheriff Summary Court yesterday, Thomas Coupar, blacksmith , pleaded guilty of theft . Yesterday morning Constable Whitson observing the prisoner en…

GLASGOW SHERIFF COURT.

Baird v. Glasgow & South Western Railway

Important Decision to Carriers.

This was an action for the recovery of £38, being the value of 2000 gallons of oil belonging to the pu…

Substitutes for Coal.

In the present dearth of coal, it is satisfactory to know that efforts are being made in various directions to meet the public wants in the way of fuel. We have heard good deal l…

Pollution of Scotch Rivers - Basin of the Forth

The Rivers Pollution Commissioners have just issued the second volume of their evidence, which included that taken in the basin of the Forth.  The follo…

Glasgow Oil Company v. Bell

Court of Session, First Division, Friday July 25th, (before the Lord President and Jury)

To-day, the Lord President and jury were engaged trying action the instance of the G…

The Bankruptcy of Alexander Morrison Fell

Glasgow Bankruptcy Court

On Tuesday, at the Glasgow Bankruptcy Court— Sheriff Dickson—Alex. Morrison Fell, oil manufacturer, residing at 86 Buccleuch Street, a…

THE SHALE-MINING TRADE

LINLITHGOWSHIRE AND MID-LOTHIAN

Throughout the whole history of our manufacturing industry it would be exceedingly difficult, if not quite impossible, to find record of a branch …

THE POLLUTION OF THE RIVER ALMOND

In July, 1872, Thomas Alexander Hay, Newliston, raised an action against the Uphall Mineral Oil Company (Limited) for the purpose of having it found that he had a goo…

FARM TO LET

The FARM of BREICHDYKES, on the estate of Westwood and parish of Livingstone, extending to 210 Imperial Acres or thereby, to be let for nineteen years from Whitsunday, 1875. The farm is al…

West Calder Oil Co. v. Glasgow Oil Co.

Court of Session, Jury Trial - First Division

Friday, July 24. (Before the Lord President and a Jury.)

WEST CALDER OIL COMPANY v. GLASGOW OIL COMPANY. This was a c…

ANTI-POLLUTION OPERATIONS ON THE ALMOND

AMONG current problems of social economics there is none perhaps which more urgently calls for solution than that of the purification of our streams. Apart from…

SHAREHOLDERS' MEETINGS OF YOUNG'S PARAFFIN LIGHT AND MINERAL OIL CO. LTD.

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A sad occurrence took place at the village of Addiewell, near West Calder, late on Saturday night. The scene of the murder-for there seems no doubt that the affair is of this melancholy nature-is a c…

trial EXT

REPORT 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…

TERRIFIC 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…

Broxburn Oil Works

Each retort is capable of containing 17½ cwt. of shale. By way of showing the saving of coal effected by using the spent shale, it may be said that, while the Henderson patent retor…

Hood v. Coatbridge Oil Co.

Second Division

To-day counsel were heard on a reclaiming note by Archibald Hood, coalmaster, Rosewell Street, Edinburgh, from a decision of Lord-Ordinary Clark. Some time ag…

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1884 General Meeting

THE WEST LOTHIAN OIL COMPANY. The fir…

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Glasgow Herald - Tuesday 28 May 1872

JOHNSTON.-Serious Accident.—Two labourers, named James M'Allan and Edward M'Glynn, both residing in Johnstone, were severely injured it yesterday afterno…

1899

NEW HERMAND OIL COMPANY .

An extraordinary general meeting of the New Hermand Oil Company was held yesterday afternoon in Lyon & Turnbull’s Room, George Street, Edinburgh, for the purposes of …

1880

THE BROXBURN OIL COMPANY (LIMITED). A report has been issued by the directors of the Broxburn Mineral Oil Company in regard to the issue of new stock to meet the outlay arising in connection with…

New Oil Works in Linlithgow

The erection of the works of the Linlithgow Oil Company (Limited), which was commenced about a year ago , has been rapidly pushed forward and operations have now been comme…

The Bathgate Oil Company Limited.

To be incorporated under “The Companies Acts 1862 to 1880,” whereby the Liability of Shareholders is limited to the amount of their shares.

Capital £50,000, in 5000 sh…

Annual Reviews of the Scottish Oil Trade

The promotion of public limited companies gave small investors the opportunity to play a part in the ownership of Scottish shale oil businesses. The successful…

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Binend Oil Company v. Robert Kirk—it may be remembered that this appeal was taken by the Binend Oil Company and others against the judgment of the Sheriff of Fifeshire in action raised by Robert Kirk…

THE WALKINSHAW OIL COMPANY LIMITED.

Incorporated under the Companies Acts 1862, 1867, and 1877. Share Capital £120,00. In 12,000 Shares of £10 each, of which 1764 Shares are to be taken by the Vendors…

Outline

• 1881 AGM – East Fulton works were in full operation, the new works at Walkinshaw should be operation by next February. A dividend of 5% was declared
• 1882 AGM - The refinery was now complete and…

THE KINGHORN LOCH CASE.

KINGHORN TOWN COUNCIL V. BURNTISLAND OIL COMPANY. {Specially Reported)
Proof was led on Thursday before Lord in the Court of Session in the action at the instance of the Kin…

ACCIDENT TO A MINER

James Donnelly, 24 years of age, a miner, residing at 10 Murchison Buildings, West Caider, received severe bruises and injuries to the back and shoulders today by the falling of a …

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First Annual General Meeting 1883

The Mid-Lothian Oil Company.—The first annual meeting of this company was held Powell's Ro…

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1883 Annual General Meeting

LANARK OIL COMPANY. The first general meeting the shareholders this company was held today in 56 Georg…

Prospectus of the Holmes Oil Co. Ltd.

THE HOLMES OIL COMPANY (LIMITED). CAPITAL, £100,000, in 10,000 shares of £10 each SUBSCRIPTIONS are invited for 6750 SHARES of the Company. Deposit, £1 per Share …

To be INCORPORATED UNDER THE "COMPANIES ACTS, 1862 to 1880, WHEREBY THE LIABILITY TO SHAREHOLDERS is Limited the Amount their Shares.

CAPITAL £150,000 in 15,000 Shares of £10 Each. Subscriptions …

South Cobbinshaw Fireclay & Brick Co. Ltd

File No. BT2 - 1355

Registration Date: 16th May 1884

Registered Office: Townhall Street, Inverkeithing.

Directors: Thomas Scott, 12 Broughton Place, Edinburg…

Public meetings of the Mid-Lothian Oil Co. Ltd

First Annual General Meeting 1883

The Mid-Lothian Oil Company.—The first annual meeting of this company was held Powell's Rooms, George Street, Edinb…

LIST OF APPLICATIONS CLOSE 25TH JANUARY.

ANNICK LODGE OIL COMPANY LIMITED.

CAPITAL £12,000 IN 2400 SHARES OF £5 EACH.

Payable 20s on Application. 20S on Allotment, and the Balance as required in Calls n…

New Oil Works in Linlithgow

The erection of the works of the Linlithgow Oil Company (Limited), which was commenced about a year ago , has been rapidly pushed forward and operations have now been comme…

THE HERMAND OIL COMPANY LIMITED

To be Incorporated under the "The Companies Acts 1862 – 1883" whereby the Liability of Shareholders is Limited to the Amount of their Shares.

CAPITAL £140,000 …

Walkinshaw Oil Co.'s Experiments in Oil-Firing.

With an ever-increasing production of shale and products, the subject of using liquid oil for steam-producing purposes is being more and more into …

1885 THE BOSON OIL COMPANY.

The first annual general meeting of shareholders of the Boson Oil Company, Edinburgh, formed work mineral field in the south France, was held in Mr Dowell's Rooms, Geo…

1886

THE HERMAND OIL COMPANY - The second annual meeting of this company was held in Lyon & Turnbull's rooms, Edinburgh - Mr J. Armour presiding. The report stated that there was a sum of £11…

Below are transcriptions of 24 newspaper articles, all relating to the shale miners' strike in 1887 at the Broxburn Oil Company (and other Scottish Shale Oil Companies).
Each article is introduce…

An Important Industry in Linlithgow

The mineral oil trade of Scotland is one which is highly to the credit of the commercial enterprise of he sons. Previous to 1858 it had no existence. Now there are …

An Important Industry in Linlithgow

The mineral oil trade of Scotland is one which is highly to the credit of the commercial enterprise of he sons. Previous to 1858 it had no existence. Now there are …

213297 Part 1 transcription

213297 Part 2 Transcription

BURNTISLAND OIL WORKERS. The strike of the Burntisland oil work employees continues. A meeting of the workmen was held on the Links in the forenoon on Thursday, when the deputation which waited on th…

Public meetings of the Burntisland Oil Co. Ltd

Select by date::

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THE ACTION AGAINST THE HERMAND OIL. COMPANY.

In Edinburgh Sheriff recently, David Baldie, Went Calder, a lad of 18, sued the Hermand Oil Company for damages for injury to his right foot. He alleged th…

ACCIDENT AT AN ADDIEWELL PIT

A serious accident happened to a young man named George Sanderson, who is engaged as a miner in No. 2 pit, Addiewell, Sanderson was working at the face when a stone from t…

OUTER HOUSE – SATURDAY , March 1. (Before Lord KINNEAR.)

YOUNG, &C., v. THE HERMAND OIL COMPANY.

Lord Kinnear closed the record in an action at the instance of William Young, consulting chemist, re…

The Caledonian Oil Company - a Visit to the Works.

The directors and shareholders of the Caledonian Mineral Oil Company spent the greater part of Friday and Saturday in visiting their works at Tarbrax…

Young and C. v The Hermand Oil Company

Lord Kinnear to-day issued judgement in an action at the instance of William Young, consulting chemist, residing at Priorsford, Peebles, and George Thomas Beilby…

McKnight vs Hermand Oil Co.

(Before Lord Kincairney and a Jury)

The trial began yesterday and concluded to-day of the action by Andrew McKnight, miner, West Calder, against the Hermand Oil Company , fo…

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1890 Annual General Meeting

CALEDONIAN OIL COMPANY REPORT. The first annual report the Caledonian Mineral Oil Company, just issue…

The Scottish Oil Trade Crisis.—The Burntisland Oil Company, Limited, have issued a notice calling up £-1 per share "'to provide for the payment of the debentures the Company about to fall d…

SUICIDE AT A PIT

Early on Saturday morning when the oversman descended No. 8 Pit, the property of Messrs Young’s Oil Company, Addiewell, he came upon the body of a man at the pit bottom. The head was …

FIRE IN AN ADDIEWELL SHALE PIT.

Youngs No. 2 shale pit discovered early last week to be on fire, and every effort was made to arrest the passage of the flames, some of the workmen having had narrow es…

1892

HERMAND OIL COMPANY (LIMITED).

DIRECTORS’ REPORT.

The report of the HERMAND OIL COMPANY (LIMITED) is as follows:-

The directors herewith submit the balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1892, with the aud…

Extract for an autobiography by Arthur Robottom, published 1893 by Jarrold & Sons, London.

Later on, I joined some friends in Flintshire, with some land to shoot over, and we were applied to by th…

WEST CALDER MINING CASE.

Proof was led on Monday, 20th ult., before Sheriff-Substitute Melville, at Linlithgow, as to liability in an action by John Hamilton and his wife, residing at Mossend, West Ca…

The Affairs of the Dee Oil Company

PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF DIRECTORS - THE MISSING PRIVATE LEDGER

A public examination of the directors and officers of the Dee Oil Company, Limited, was opened at Chester…

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Narrow Escape of Village

Damage £10,000

One of the most dangerous fires in the history of the Scottish mineral oil trade broke out at the works of the Oakbank Mineral Oil Company at noon yesterday. The…

Uphall Parish Council.

The Chairman then submitted the following motion, notice of which gave last meeting:-

"That we, the parish of Uphall, request the District Committee of the County Council, i…

The Broxburn Oil Company's Works

The works of the Broxburn Oil Company (Limited) were visited yesterday by a party numbering over 150 ladies and gentlemen, members and friends of members of the E…

The Broxburn Oil Works Fire

As reported in our late editions yesterday, fire broke out yesterday afternoon in one of the large oil tanks in Broxburn Oilworks, the result, it is supposed, of a spark fa…

The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck

MEMOIRS OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES, 1898, xi 278.

The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth. By A. Strachan.

Page 53.

The so-called 'coal'…

Destructive Fire at Linlithgow Oil Works

Five Men Injured - Plant and Property Damaged

Shortly after ten o'clock on Saturday night an alarming fire broke out at the works of the Linlithgow Oil Com…

THE FIRE AT LINLITHGOW OIL WORKS FATAL ACCIDENTS INQUIRY.

As a sequel to the disastrous tire which recently occurred at the paraffin sheds of the Linlithgow Oil Works, a public inquiry under the Fatal…

SHALE MINERS' STRIKE AT WEST CALDER.

The shale miners of the New Hermand Oil Company have struck work against a reduction of wages. The mining is paid per fathomage in the company's mines, a…

THE RECENT ACCIDENT AT BREICH OIL WORKS.

In Linlithgow Sheriff Court on Thursday - before Sheriff Macleod and a jury—a public inquiry was held as to the death of Adam Thomson Stewart, retort foreman, …

Crisis at the Hermand Oil Works,

The stoppage of Linlithgow Oil Company and the low prices being realised for crude oil has produced a crisis at the New Hermand Works at West Calder. Linlithgow Oil Co…

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 …

New 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…

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THE RECENT FATALITY AT NEW HERMAND OIL WORKS.

A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.

Before Hon. Sheriff-Substitute Turnbull and a jury at Linlithgow on Tuesday, a public inquiry was held under the Fatal Accidents Inquir…

BALBARDIE 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…

The 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…

ARMADALE: PAST AND PRESENT FROM ITS FOUNDATION

TO THE PRESENT DAY by R. HYND-BROWN, published in instalments in the Linlithgowshire Gazette, 1906

Chapter

DISCOVERY OF THE PARROT COAL – MR YOUNG CHEMIST,…

Serious Fire at Uphall Oil Works

Estimated Damage, £10,000

About six o’clock last night a fire broke out in Uphall Oil Works, belonging to Young’s Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company (Limited), and …

THE NEW BAKERY PREMISES.

The new bakery and electric power station of the West Calder Co-operative Society is built on as admirable site adjoining the present carriage sheds, etc., with the Caledonian…

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Steuart Bayley Hog v. The Broxburn Oil Co. Ltd

Kirkliston Proprietor and Oilworks

The record was closed and proof allowed in an action at the instance of Steuart Bayley Hog of Newliston, Kirkliston, ag…

THE ESTATE OF WESTWOOD

The Lands extend to about 450 acres, about one-half of which is included in the Farm of City . The remainder is let for grazing and a portion for cropping. The Land is all withi…

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From the Oil Shale Industry in Scotland and England

By Victor C. Alderston

Excerpts from the Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines, October 1920

The Kimmeridge clay formation in Norfolk County has b…

Oil.—Messrs. Jesty & Baker, of Portland, have commenced a shaft in the oil shale at the back of H.M. Dockyard. It is understood that the operations are being conducted on behalf of the Shell Oil …

MIDDLETON HALL ACCIDENT.

The first enquiry was as to the death of James Beattie Provan, acetylene welder. who was fatally injured in an accident at Middleton Hall workshop. on 28th October last. John …

Below are a number of transcribed newspaper articles relating to the 1925 miners' strike at the Scottish Shale Oil Companies.

A few of the below article are (or will be) introduced with a short s…

Shale Pit Explosion

West Lothian Accident - One Miner Killed

Yesterday forenoon a state of excitement prevailed in the mining district of Philpstoun, near Linlithgow, when it became known that an explo…

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ACTIVE BROXBURN NONAGENERIAN (sic)

On the third day of May, Mr Hugh Dalrymple Webster, better known as Hughie Webster, attained his 80th birthday, and on a later date, the occasion was fittingly celeb…

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The Scottish Oil Coy., Ltd., have been supplying their workers all over the area with baths, and last week the subsidiary company. Hopetoun Oil Co., opened their baths at Niddry. These baths are situ…

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Fifteen Men Cut Off by a Wall of Flame in West Calder Accident

Miner Entombed in Scots Pit Explosion

Battle with Underground Fire to Reach Tapped Men

Smoke Hampers Rescuers

Round the pithead at Burngrang…

It's Scotland's Oil !

by Tom McVicar - posted August 2012

Now a Canadian citizen, Tom McVicar began his working life topside at Westwood pit with the hutch mender. Soon after, not liking the …

List of Joint Stock companies associated with the Welsh coal oil industry; extracted from Board of Trade records held by the National Archive, and listed in order of date of formation

1861

Company No: …

I regularly check-in on one of my mother's neighbours. Douglas is in his 90's, a storyteller and he writes stories. When I visited him a couple of weeks ago, Douglas read me a story that he…