Lochore Miners Welfare Club - WWI War Memorial
Dedicated to the Men of Mary Pit
National Grid Reference NT 17970 96596
Lochore Meadows Country Park
National Grid Reference NT 1775 95936
Fife Regional Council
Lochore Meadows Country Park
This Pit Winding Wheel Stands As Tribute To The People Of This Area Who Depended On Coal Mining For Their Livelihood. After The Last Of The Local Pits Closed In 1967. The Surrounding Dereliction Was Restored To Countryside In One Of The Largest Land Reclamation Schemes Ever Undertaken In Britain.
Lochore Meadows, Ballingray, Fife
Miners Strike 84 - 85
National Grid Reference NT 17091 96106
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Michael Disaster 9 Sep 1967
Main Road, East Wemyss, Fife - (South of Main Road at St Mary’s Terrace)
The original plaque is now housed at the mining museum at West Wemyss
National Grid Reference NT 33589 96567
Those Who Died
Michael Colliery, Fife, 9th September, 1967
Those recovered 9th September 1967
- Alexander Henderson aged 41 years, a power loader operator
- Johnstone Smith aged 36 years, a power loader operator
- James Tait aged 41 years, an overman
- Andrew Thomson aged 55 years, a power loader operator
- Philip Thomson aged 64 years, a greaser.
- Henry Morrison.
There were three bodies that were not found
- Hugh Gallacher aged 61 years, a pumpman
- James McKay aged 59 years, a greaser
- Andrew Taylor aged 43 years, a deputy.
