Fulton pits

Available evidence suggests that existing ironstone and coal mine(s) were taken over by James Greenshields & Son to supply shale to their East Fulton shale oil works. Ownership ultimately passed to the Walkinshaw Oil Co, on its formation in c.1880

The first edition OS map (surveyed c.1857) show two ironstone pits (both titled "Fulton pit - ironstone"), linked by a tramway to a limeworks and coal pit at Darluth. The OS names book shows all these premises were worked by the ironmasters Merry & Cunninghame, and that the pits were titled Fulton No.1 and Fulton No.2 - without identifying which was which.

Fulton pit was listed in successive editions of Mineral Statistics:

  • Listed as a colliery worked by J. Greenshields & Sons in 1868, 1870, and 1871
  • Listed as a colliery worked by J. Liddell & Co. in 1873, 1874, 1877, 1879, and 1880
  • Listed as a shale mine worked in 1885 by Walkinshaw Oil Co. (Robert Gibb, manager)

Location maps

Key to markers on the location maps.

  1. "Old shaft" marked on the 1895 OS map but absent from the first edition (c.1857)
  2. Fulton ironstone pit (1), marked on the first edition OS map (c.1857)
  3. Fulton ironstone pit (2), marked on 1857 OS map and derelict presumed site of East Fulton oil works from 1895 map.
  4. Darluth coal and lime works, marked on 1857 OS map, linked to Fulton pits by tramway and also owned by Merry & Cunninghame)

Detail maps