Straiton No.8 mine

Former parish and county:

Parish of Liberton, Edinburghshire

Local authority:

City of Edinburgh

Ownership:

Clippens Oil Co. Ltd. (1878)

Clippens Oil Co. Ltd. (1893)

Seams worked:

Broxburn Shale, Dunnet Shale

Closed:

1900

Current status of site:

Retail park

Regional overview:

Mines in the Straiton area

Inclined adit

Serving Pentland Paraffin Oil Works

An unidentified adit, close to Straiton Oil Works and Refinery, coinciding with workings in the Broxburn Shale marked on a mining plan. Perhaps No. 8 Mine.?

See Pentland No. 1 & No. 2 Mines for an overview of shale mining in the Straiton area.

Shale-field: Burdiehouse and Straiton shale-fields.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1894, showing adit heading south eastwards into the ground.

Location & workings at Straiton No.8 mine

Detailed maps

Straiton No.8 Mine - 25" OS map c.1894, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.8 Mine - 25" OS map c.1907, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.8 Mine - 1:2,500 OS map c.1955, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.8 Mine - Aerial, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Drawings

Mining plan showing adit into the Broxburn Shales [in the centre of the map, a 'T' shaped outcrop marks the site.(British Geological Survey LSP 972 (15231).

Recent images

Section of car park in Straiton retail park on the site of No. 8 Mine. Looking east. July 2012.

Newspaper references

HITTING A MAN WITH A SHOVEL

In the Edinburgh Sheriff Summary Court to-day, Richard Johnstone was fined 10s, with the option of five days' imprisonment, for assaulting an engineman named Beck at No. 8 shale mine, Straiton, by hitting him with a shovel to the effusion of blood.

Edinburgh Evening News, 27th February 1897

External references

Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. 5913, showing workings in the Dunnet, Broxburn and Fells Shales from Straiton No. 3, 4, 7, 8; Mortonhall No. 9, 10, Pentland No. 1 , 2 and Oakbank, abandoned in 1900.