Welcome to Scottish Mining Villages

The site contains information on miners' lives and on some of the mining towns and villages in Lanarkshire, Fife and other areas of Scotland - compiled from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles.

The mining accident section covers the whole of Scotland - for the years 1852 to 1914, inclusive,  these are taken from the Annual Reports of the Inspector of Mines, for other years these have been compiled from old newspaper articles. The site contains more than 16,000 names of those involved in the mining industry in Scotland.

Other resources include information on miners housing, the 1842 Children's Employment Commission,  lists of mines and collieries, a glossary of mining terms and a section on war memorials. 

We hope you find this information useful and please call back as we are adding new material all the time. 

Recent Additions:

• Additional reports on Auchenharvie disaster
  
• 1854 List of collieries in Scotland
  
• Newspaper articles for 1937 accidents added
  
• Full text of 1887 Coal Mines Act
  
• Report on explosion at Herbertshire, Denny, 1893
  
• Reports on housing in Carluke, Carmichael & Carnwath parishes
  
• See  also What's New section