Update History

21 Apr 08 - General updates.  Newspaper report on Auchenharvie 1895 disaster.

19 Apr 08 - General updates

13 Apr 08 - General updates - mainly post 1937 names.

5 Apr 08 - General updates - mainly pre1855 accidents

24 Mar 08 - 1893 Inspectors reports completed with addition of all extra information from main body of reports

22 Mar 08 - General updates.  Addition of newspaper reports to Mauricewood page

21 Mar 08 - General updates.  New Contact form.  Regrettably due to ongoing problems caused by large volumes of spam, and issues associated with enquirers sending extremely large attachments, we have withdrawn open access to our contact e-mail.  Hopefully the new contact form will allow us to receive and respond to enquiries more efficiently.  E-mails sent to our old address by existing correspondents should be unaffected by this change.

8 Mar 08 - 1894 Inspectors reports completed with addition of all extra information from main body of reports

2 Mar 08 - General updates

28 Feb 08 - General updates

23 Feb 08 - General updates, mostly on Fife accidents

9 Feb 08 - General updates

27 Jan 08 - General updates

6 Jan 08 - pages of 1898 accidents at Montgomeryfield and Auldhouseburn added

5 Jan 08 - General updates

2 Jan 08 - List of collieries in Scotland in 1854

1 Jan 08 - Newspaper articles for 1937 accidents added.

26 Dec 07 - Full text of 1887 Coal Mines Act. 

20 Dec 07 - Links updated.

16 Dec 07 - General updates.

25 Nov 07 - Report on 1893 explosion at Herbertshire, Denny. Also general updates

18 Nov 07 - Report on 1910 housing in Carluke, Carmichael & Carnwath parishes

10 Nov 2007 - Full text of 1842 Act to prohibit the Employment of Women and Girls in Mines and Collieries, to regulate the Employment of Boys, and make Provisions for the Safety of Persons working therein.  East of Scotland evidence completed.

3 Nov 2007 - General updates.

27 Oct 2007 - General updates. New section containing obituaries of notable miners' leaders, inspectors and coal owners.

21 Oct 2007 - General updates.  The site now contains more than 16,000 names of those killed or injured in accidents or involved in the mining industry in Scotland.

8 Oct 2007 -  New section under construction on wages and cost of living

7 Oct 2007 - Report on Housing Condition of Miners in Stirlingshire and Dumbarton by John Christie M'Vail, 1911.

6 Oct 2007 - List of mines 1893 - now complete.  Illustrations of houses at Mavis Valley, Gartcosh Square & Bridgend added.

30 Sept 2007   - article on serious underground fire at Kirkwood Colliery supplied courtesy of Robert Murray

23 Sept 2007 - List of mines 1893

22 Sept 2007 - Pages on 1885 accident at Addiewell & 1898 Furnaceyard added

15 Sept 2007 - Reports on housing in 1910 in Barony, Cadder & Rutherglen parishes

2 Sept 2007 - new report on Burngrange fire in 1947 added

25/26 Aug 2007 - General updates

17 Aug 2007 - General updates

11 Aug 2007 - Pictures of Knockshinnoch and Kirkconnel Memorials added

4 Aug 2007 - General updates, 100 new accidents added.  New custom Google search engine added.

23 July 2007 - We will no longer be adding gazetteer descriptions to the site. Versions of both books we have can be found on-line at the Vision of Britain & British History On-line websites.  Consequently we will be concentrating our efforts on other resources

23 Jun 2007 - Report by Ralph Moore, HM Inspector of Mines on Udston disaster- includes list of dead with corresponding map showing location of bodies

3 Jun 2007  - Details of 150 accident added. Added page on Kames 1957 disaster

2 Jun 2007 - Details from Inspectors of Mines report added to 1932 index

20 May 2007 - Cowie & Fallin miners memorials added

12 May 2007 - approx 200 new accidents added

20 Apr 2007 - general updates

1, 2 & 14 Apr 2007 - general updates including approx 250 new newspaper reports

25 & 10 Feb 2007 - general updates

27 Jan 2007

• Approx 250 new accidents added - mainly post 1914

6 & 12  Jan 2007

• General updates
  

17 Dec 2006

• General updates

12 Dec 2006

• General updates and name index M to Z added
  

16 Nov 2006

• Site reorganised to include general pages on different areas of Scotland
• A simple surname index of people mentioned in the site, excluding known fatal accidents has been assembled and parts A to L uploaded.  This index contains approximately 2000 names. 
  

8 Oct 2006

• General updates

4 Oct 2006

• General updates including updates to post 1914 accident pages and articles on Stanrigg Disaster from the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser.
  

1 Oct 2006

• General updates

26 Sept 2006

• Part 2 of Fife Coal Co Veteran Employees added

25 Sept 2006

• Part 1 of Fife Coal Co Veteran Employees added

24 Sept 2006

• General updates and revised indices for post 1914 deaths

21 Sept 2006

• General updates

20 Sept 2006

• General updates including account of non-fatal accident at Edmonstone in 1839 when 13 mine workers were rescued after being entombed for 36 hours.  Also approx 200 new names of men killed in pre-1852 and post 1914 accidents
  

16 Sept 2006

• Chapter on “The Coalfields” from “Auchterderran, A Parish History”, 1924
  

15 Sept 2006

• General updates

2 Sept 2006

• General updates including new reports on Blantyre 1878 accident

30 Aug 2006

• General updates

27 Aug 2006

• FAQ section added and general updates

23 Aug 2006

• General updates

19 Aug 2006

• United Collieries Active Service Roll, section on names A to C updated and completed.  Many thanks to Robert Murray for generously supplying pages missing from our own copy of this book to allow us to complete this transcription.
  

12 Aug 2006

• Final set of names (S to Y) added to United Collieries Active Service Roll

31 Jul 2006

• General updates
• Names N to R added to United Collieries Active Service Roll

29 Jul 2006

• Names M added to United Collieries Active Service Roll
• Transcription of The Fife Coal Company Limited - The Jubilee Year 1872 - 1922 By And. S. Cunningham, September 1922
  

25 Jul 2006

• Names H to L added to United Collieries Active Service Roll
  

23 July 2006

• We are currently revising the page structure so that all places are arranged by parish.  If you find any broken links, we would be grateful if you could report them using the e-mail address on the home page.

22 July 2006

• We are currently transcribing names from the United Collieries Active Service Roll 1914-1919 which contains the names of over 2000 employees of that company who served in the First World War.  The first sections, covering names A to G have been uploaded.

15 Jul 2006

• Completion of our latest project - a complete transcription of "Glossary of Scotch Mining Terms" by James Barrowman.  Barrowman,  a mining engineer who was secretary of the Mining Institute of Scotland , and mineral factor on the Duke of Hamilton's estate compiled this 74 page glossary in 1886 and its definitions of occupations, words commonly used by miners and technical mining terms are invaluable to anyone using these pages.
• 1929 accidents

27 June 2006

• Page added on 1931 Auchengeich Disaster

9 June 2006

• General updates including page on 1921 Blantyre Ferme explosion and updates to Rosehall 1934

29 May 2006

• General updates including information on Starlaw shale pit disaster and new article on Greenfield Boiler Explosion
• Index added to post-1914 deaths on site

26 May 2006

• 1905 accidents updated to include both East and West Districts.  This addition completes the series of deaths reported in the Inspector of Mines reports from 1852 to 1914.  Some pages are still incomplete as extra information from the main body of the report is to be added - we are currently working on these.  The site currently contains the names of approximately 9000 men women and children killed in Scottish mines but we are continually adding more as these are located in newspapers.
• Index added to pre-1852 deaths on site

22 May 2006

• 1883 accidents added

21 May 2006

• New pages on Dalserf Parish in including Larkhall workmens Building Societies

19 May 2006

• 1881 accidents added

• Extracts from report on Stanrigg disaster

6 Dec 2005