800 Years Mining in the Lothians Coalfields |
Campview, Danderhall, Midlothian
|
Addiewell and Loganlea Memorial Garden |
Addiewell and Loganlea Memorial Garden Moorlands Gardens, Loganlea, West Lothian |
Allanton, Kingshill Miners |
Kingshill Miners, Allanton Miner Industial Heritage Sculpture |
Auchengeich Disaster
|
 18 Sep 1959 - Auchengeich Miners’ Welfare, Gartferry Road, Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire |
Auchengeich Disaster
|
 18 Sep 1959 - Condorrat Wall, by roundabout, North Road, Condorrat, North Lanarkshire |
Auchenharvie Disaster
|
2 Aug 1895 - Auchenharvie Golf Course, Stevenston, North Ayrshire |
Auchinleck Memorial Garden and walkway |
Well Road, Auchinleck, East Ayrshire |
Auchinleck |
Roundabout (A76) Mauchline Road, Auchinleck |
Baillieston Library Miner Spanish Civil War |
Baillieston Library, Main Street, Baillieston (A89), Glasgow |
Balgonie Colliery and Estate |
Victoria Hall, Main Street, Coaltown of Balgonie, Fife |
Barony Colliery
See Also A Day at Barony
|
 1908-1989 - Barony Colliery, Auchinleck, East Ayrshire |
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Barrwood Disaster
|
8 Mar 1878 - Kilsyth Parish Church Cemetery, Howe Road, Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire |
Benarty |
Ballingray, Fife (East of B920 opposite junction with Hill Road) |
Benston Disasters
|
25 Jul 1860 - Wee Wood, Johnstone, Renfrewshire (Quarrelton Road / Beith Road junction) -
[Joint memorial with Quarelton Disaster] |
Benwhat Village |
Site of Benwhat village, off A713 north- west of Dalmellington, East Ayrshire (June 2013) One of a number of villages created in the Doon Valley of Ayrshire by the Dalmellington Iron Company in the mid to late 19th century |
Bilston Entry and Information |
Clark Street, Loanhead, Midlothian |
Bilston Glen Miners |
Clark Street, Loanhead, Midlothian |
Blackridge Bothie |
Bothie structure which was at Blackridge West Lothian on the Airdrie - Bathgate Railway Line. |
Blairhall |
Rintoul Avenue, Blairhall, Fife |
Blantrye - (Centenary) |
Blantyre was also the scene of two further disasters in 1878 and 1879 |
Blantrye Disaster (centenary) |
Blantyre (centenary) 22 Oct 1877 Blantyre High Cross, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire |
Blantrye Disaster
|
High Blantyre Cemetery, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire
22 Oct 1877 & 2 Jul 1879 |
Blantrye Disaster |
Stained glass windows in St Joseph’s RC Church, Mayberry Place, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire |
Blantyre |
22 Oct 1877 - Statue at Westerpark Avenue, opposite Helmsdale Close, at the Hamilton Technology Park, Hamilton |
Blantyre Miners Spanish Civil War |
Blantyre Miners Welfare, Calder Street, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire |
Blantrye |
Blantyre Miners Welfare, Calder Street, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire |
Bo’ness Mines and Miners |
Corner of Union Street and Seaview Place, Bo’ness, Falkirk |
Bo’ness, St Catharine's Episcopal Church |
Industries Window, St. Catharine’s Episcopal Church, Cadzow Crescent, Bo’ness, Falkirk |
Bothwell Castle Colliery |
Bothwell Village Community Hall, Fallside Road, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire |
Bothwell Castle Miners |
Colliery Hutch, Village Community Hall, Fallside Road , Bothwell , South Lanarkshire |
Bothwell Castle Miners |
Flower Garden, Blantyre Road and B7071 Bothwell Road, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire |
Bothwellhaugh Village |
Bothwellhaugh Village in Strathclyde Country, nr Bothwell. South Lanarkshire |
Bowhill Disaster
|
31 Oct 1931 - Bowhill Cemetery, Bowhill, Fife |
Bowhill Disaster
|
(RC Miners Killed) - 6 Aug 1913 St Kentigern’s RC Cemetery, directly north of access on Tresta Road, Glasgow |
Bowhill Hutch and Wheel |
Bowhill View, Cardenden, Fife |
Bowhill Plaque 1 (Jamphlars) |
Bowhill, Fife (at Hutch and wheel) |
Bowhill Plaque 2 |
Bowhill, Fife (at Hutch and wheel) |
Broxburn / Uphall |
North side of Goshen Place (A899) at boundary of Broxburn and Uphall, West Lothian |
Broxburn and Uphall |
Shale People murals along and either side of A899 in Uphall and Broxburn, West Lothian |
Broxburn and Uphall |
Shale Industry in West Lothian. On the junction between Uphall and Broxburn on the main road through the towns (north side of Goshen Place (A899) at boundary of Broxburn and Uphall, West Lothian).
Shown as model in Public Art book. |
Brown, James MP |
Weston Avenue, Annbank, (B744) South Ayrshire. James Brown, (1862 – 1939) Scottish Labour politician
and Secretary of the Ayrshire Miners' Union and of the Scottish Miners' National Union |
Burngrange Disaster
|
10 Jan 1947 - Town Centre (A71), West Calder, West Lothian |
Burngrange |
10 Jan 1947 - Seafield Community Centre, Seafield, West Lothian |
Burngrange |
10 Jan 1947 - Seafield Bowling Club, Seafield, West Lothian |
Cadder Disaster |
6 Aug 1913 - Cadder Cemetery, corner of A803 and Crosshill Road, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire |
Cadder Disaster |
6 Aug 1913 - Centenary Memorial Bishopbriggs Library, Kirkintilloch Road, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire |
Cadder
(RC Miners Killed) |
St Kentigern’s RC Cemetery, directly north of access on Tresta Road, Glasgow |
Cadder Disaster |
6 Aug 1913 - Centenary Memorial Lambhill Stables, Balmore Road, Glasgow |
Cairntable Village |
B730, South of Drongan, East Ayrshire |
Cambuslang |
Miners Monument, Hamilton Road, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire |
Cardowan Memorial
|
Cardowan Memorial Stepps, Unveiled 19-Oct-2019 |
Child Miners of Scotland |
Campview, Danderhall, Midlothian |
Coaltown of Wymess |
Main Street (A955) at its junction with Lochhead Pit Road |
Commonhead Disaster
|
23 Jul 1850 - Commonside Street (opposite Commonhead Lane), Airdrie, North Lanarkshire |
Cowdenbeath
|
Cowdenbeath, Fife |
Cowie |
Main Street, Cowie, Stirlingshire (opposite Community Centre) |
Crossgates Community Garden |
Crossgates Community Garden |
Croy
|
Croy welcomes new Miners' Memorial, Croy, North Lanarkshire |
Cumnock, Glaisknock Shopping Centre |
Glaisknock Shopping Centre, Cumnock, East Ayrshire (Centre to be demolished soon) |
Dailly |
 Dailly, South Ayrshire (Corner of West End and Bridge Street, B741) |
Dalmellington
Benwhat Village |
South of Carspharin Road (A713) by War Memorial Bellsbank Road, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire |
Dalmellington Hutch |
Dalmellington Hutch - Dalmellington Community Council presented a Miners Hutch and Bench to the Parish |
Dalmellington Mining Villages |
Standing Stones to 7 mining villages in Doon Valley (1999), off A713 north of Dalmellington, East Ayrshire |
Donibristle Disaster
|
26 Aug 1901 - Bridge Street, Cowdenbeath, Fife (west of road into Cowdenbeath from A92) |
Dumbreck Disaster
|
 30 Jan 1938 - Kilsyth Cemetery, Howe Road, Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire (Drumbreck on memorial) |
East Lothian Mines on Pencaitland Railway Walk Carberry to West Saltoun |
East Lothian Mines on Pencaitland Railway Walk Memorials to Oxenford Pit, Bellyford Pit, Limeyands Pit, Meadow Pit, Elphinstone (Bog, Howden, Fleets Pits), Ormiston Station Pit,Woodhall Pit, Huntlaw Pit Carberry to West Saltoun, East Lothian |
Easthouses Miners |
Easthouses Industrial Estate, Midlothian |
Fallin |
Opposite junction with Castle View, Fallin, Stirlingshire |
Fauldhead Colliery |
Main Street, Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway |
Fauldhouse (Fallahill) Disaster |
20 Oct 1902 - Miners Welfare, Bathgate Road, Fauldhouse, West Lothian |
Fishcross |
Fishcross, Clackmannanshire (In Park at Lawswell, east of Alloa Road) |
Fisher, Andrew |
Memorial Cairn to east side of B7521 just north of Kilmarnock Road, Crosshouse, East Ayrshire |
Fisher, Andrew |
 Andrew Fisher Memorial Cairn and Bench, Crosshouse village, By Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. Andrew was a miner and trade union man born in Crosshouse near Kilmarnock, he went on to become Prime Minister of Australia 3 times between 1908 and 1915 and a High Commissioner thereafter. Fisher's second government between 1910 and 1913 completed a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist Alfred Deakin, the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation - See Wikipedia |
Fisher, Andrew |
Andrew Fisher Library, Annandale Gardens, south of B7081, Crosshouse, By Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire |
Frances 'A' Frame |
Off and to the south of A955 east of Dysart |
Frances Colliery |
On Coastal Path at Edington Place, Dysart, Fife |
Galston |
Galston and Loudoun Parishes - Barr Street, Galston, East Ayrshire |
Gilmerton |
Gilmerton is a suburb of Edinburgh, about 4 miles southeast of the city centre. The "tombstone" at Gilmerton Crossroads |
Glenburn |
Junction of Shaw Road and Langcroft Avenue, Prestwick, South Ayrshire |
Glencraig |
On east side of B920 north of Lochgelly, Fife at farm road to Inchgall Farm |
Glencraig Village |
In memory of the lives lost - On east side of B920 north of Lochgelly |
Glenrothes |
Rothes Halls, Kingdom Centre, Glenrothes, Fife |
Glenrothes Underpass |
Westburn Avenue Underpass, Glenrothes, Fife |
Gorebridge Miners |
Gorebridge Memorial, Midlothian |
Harthill |
West Main Street / Bank Road, Harthill, North Lanarkshire |
Hardie, Keir |
Keir Hardie Memorial Primary School, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire |
Hardie, Keir |
Keir Hardie Sports Centre, Main Street Holytown, North Lanarkshire |
Hardie, Keir |
Statue of Keir Hardie, Cumnock Town Hall, Glaisknock Street, Cumnock, East Ayrshire |
Hardie, Keir |
Keir Hardy Room, The Baird Institute, 3 Lugar Street, Cumnock, East Ayrshire |
Irvine Library Miner Spanish Civil War |
Irvine Library, High Street, Irvine, North Lanarkshire |
James A. Ritchie |
Stained glass window, Uddingston Parish Church, Old Glasgow Road, Uddingston, South Lanarkshire |
Kames Disaster
|
19 Nov 1957 - Bench in New Muirkirk New Cemetery, Glasgow Road, Muirkirk, East Ayrshire |
Kelty Collieries |
Entrance to Blairadam Forrest, nr Kelty, Fife (B914 Kelty to Saline west of M90) |
Kelty Miners |
Now outside new Kelty Library, 80 – 82 Main Street, Kelty, Fife |
Kilsyth Miners Memorial Park |
Charles St & East Burnside St, Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire |
Kinglassie |
Kinglassie, Entry Feature to What Was a Mining Museum in Kinglassie, Fife |
Kingseat |
At junction of Main Street (B912) and Church Street, Kingseat, Fife |
Kingshill Miners, Allanton |
Kingshill Miners, Allanton Miner Industial Heritage Sculpture |
Kirkconnel |
Mine Head Wheel, Between Polveach Terrace and Main Street, Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway |
Kirkconnel |
Mine 'A' Frame, Auchengour Allotments, Kelloholm, Kirkconnel |
Kirkconnel |
Fauldhead Colliery Memorial, Kirkconnel |
Kirkconnel Miners Memorial Hall |
Needle Street, Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway |
Knockshinnoch Disaster
|
 7 Sep 1950 - Knockshinnoch Colliery site, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire |
Lady Blanch Pit |
Currently in Dysart Town Hall. Permanent site proposed at Howard Place, Rectory Lane, Dysart, Fife |
Lindsay Disaster
|
14 Dec 1957 - Junction of Station Road and A909, Kelty, Fife |
Livingston
Livingston Paraffin Harvester |
At an entry to Almondvale Centre next to Primark, off Almondvale Boulevard, West Lothian |
Lochgelly |
Lochgelly Square, Lochgelly, Fife |
Lochore (Mary Pit) |
Lochore Miners Institute, Lochleven Road, Lochore, Fife WWI War Memorial, Dedicated to the Men of Mary Pit |
Lochore Meadows Country Park |
Lochore Meadows, Ballingary, Fife (at entrance and in park) |
Mary Pit |
Mary Pit, Lochore Meadows |
Mauricewood Disaster
|
5 Sep 1889 - Mauricewood Road, Penicuik, Midlothian |
McGahey, Mick |
Michael "Mick" McGahey, Part of Cambuslang Memorial, Hamilton Road, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire |
McGahey, Mick |
Michael "Mick" McGahey, George V Park, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian |
Michael Disaster
|
 9 Sep 1967 - Main Road, East Wemyss, Fife
(south of Main Road at St Mary’s Terrace) |
Millerhill
(The Carbon Tower) |
Village Square south of Old Craighall Road, Millerhill. Midlothian |
Miner Killed in
New Zealand |
Bench at Back Wynd Car Park, crossroads Gowrie Street and East Bridge Street, Perth, Perth and Kinross
Peter J Rodger 1970 - 2010 |
Miners Of The World Memorial Hutch |
Crowhill Road, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire |
Miner’s Strike 1984 - 85 |
Plaque in Bowhill Community Centre, Station Road, Bowhill, Fife. |
Miners’ Strike 1984 - 85 |
Lochore Meadows, Ballingray, Fife |
Miners’ Strike 1984 - 85 |
East Main Street, Whitburn, (A705) West Lothian |
Monktonhall Miners |
Campview, Danderhall, Midlothian |
Mosside Disaster
|
22 Sep 1939 - Leaend Road, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire |
Mosside Disaster |
22 Sep 1938 - Whinhall, Park Crescent, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire |
Muirkirk |
Main Street, Muirkirk, East Ayrshire (north side of Main Street 100 yds west of Glasgow Road) |
Muirkirk |
Muirkirk Heritage Park, Muirkirk, East Ayrshire (Main Street at Glasgow Road) |
Muirkirk (Smallburn) |
Smalburn Heritage Park nr Muirkirk, East Ayrshire |
Newcraighall |
Main Street, Newcraighall, Edinburgh |
Newton |
Redlawood Road Park, Newton, nr Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire |
Newtongrange |
Main Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian |
New Cumnock |
Glaisknock Shopping Centre, Cumnock |
New Cumnock |
New Cumnock Mineworkers Who Lost Their Lives |
Nitshill Disaster
|
15 Mar 1851 - Nitshill Road, Glasgow (west of A726 at Nitshill Railway Station) |
Out in the Open
Livingston Landmark Project |
 The Livingston Landmark Project
Go to
West Lothian Open-Space-Strategy |
Patna - The Heritage of Patna |
Patna - The Heritage of Patna |
Plean |
Main Street, Plean, Stirlingshire (west end of High Street) |
Plean Disaster |
Plean Disaster - 13 July 1922 - Main Street, (near Primary School) |
Plean Disaster |
Main Street, Plean, Stirlingshire (west end of High Street) |
Polmaise Colliery |
Polmaise Colliery Museum, Fallin, Stirlinghire |
Prestongrange Colliery Families at Prestonpans |
On the south side of Prestonpans High Street (B1348) just east of junction with Prestongrange Road |
Prestonpans Industries |
High Street, Prestonpans, East Lothian |
Prestonpans Mining |
Triangular area junction of Schaw Road and Bankton Terrace (B1361), Prestonpans, East Lothian |
Quarrelton
|
2 May 1818 - Wee Wood, Johnstone, Renfrewshire (Quarrelton Road / Beith Road junction) -
[Joint memorial with Benston Disaster] |
Quarter |
Quarter Church, Quarter, South Lanarkshire |
Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital |
Wellesley Road, Buckhaven, Fife |
Redding Disaster
|
25 Sep 1923 - Redding Cross, Redding Road and Main Street, Redding, nr Falkirk |
Rigside |
At side of A70 at entry to Rigside village, South Lanarkshire |
Ritchie, James A. |
Stained glass window, Uddingston Parish Church, Old Glasgow Road, Uddingston, South Lanarkshire |
Rowanburn |
At side of A6357, Rowanburn, north of Canonbie, Dumfries and Galloway (Memorial to Samuel Lindsay, Killed at Rowanburn Pit, 1922) |
Sauchie |
Sauchie, Clackmannanshire (Mar Place and Fairfield Rd) |
Scottish Parliament |
Miners Call for National Memorial at - ITV |
Seafield Colliery |
Bowhouse Drive, Kirkcaldy, Fife |
Seafield Disaster
|
10 May 1973 - CISWO Club, Kingdom Way, Glenrothes, Fife |
Seafield Oil Works |
Seafield Community Centre, Seafield, West Lothian |
Sea Mine |
WWII at West Wemyss in Fife |
Shotts |
In pavement at Dykehead Cross, Station Road, Shotts, North Lanarkshire |
Shotts (The Backshift) |
In park south of Health Centre, Station Road (B717), Shotts, North Lanarkshire |
Skares |
Skares, on B7046 south west of Cumnock, East Ayrshire |
Smillie, Robert |
Memorial Arch and Park, Broomhill Gate / Gallowhill Road, Larkhall, South Lanarkshire |
Smillie, Robert |
Robert Smillie Memorial Primary School, Glen Avenue, Larkhall, South Lanarkshire |
Standburn (Muiravonside and Redford Collieries) |
Standburn village on B825 between Avonbridge and A801, Falkirk |
Stanrigg Disaster
|
9 Jul 1918 - Stanrigg Plains, North Lanarkshire (on side of back road off A89 just east of Plains) |
Stanrigg Disaster |
 9 Jul 1918 - Stanrigg Memorial Park, Meikle Drumgray Road, Wattston, North Lanarkshire |
Stanrigg Disaster |
 9 Jul 1918 - Stanrigg Memorial Community Hall and Sports Centre, Greengairs, North Lanarkshire |
Stanrigg Disaster |
 9 Jul 1918 - Stanrigg New Memorial, Greengairs Rd, Wattston |
Stanrigg Disaster |
Airdrie Mining Memorial, 9 Jul 1918 |
Stirling, James |
Curfew Bell, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire |
Stoneyburn and Bents |
In Foulshiels Park, Stoneyburn and Bents, West Lothian |
Tranent |
Tranent, (Trevernent) A Place of Great Importance, East Lothian
The Mining of coal has been taking place in and around tranent since at least 1200 |
Townhill Park Dunfermline |
Mining Heritage Garden, Townhill, near Dunfermline, Fife |
Uddingston Window |
Uddingston Parish Church |
Udston Disaster |
28 May 1887 - South Lanarkshire Council Offices, Brandon Gate, Brandon Street, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire |
Udston Disaster
|
28 May 1887 - Priestknowe Roundabout, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire (junction of Whitemoss Av, West Mains Rd, Stuart St, Churchill Avenue |
Valleyfield Disaster |
28 May 1887 - Valleyfield Avenue, High Valleyfield |
Valleyfield Disaster |
28 May 1887 - Plaque in Valleyfield Club, Kinloss Court, High Valleyfield, Fife |
Valleyfield Disaster |
28 May 1887 - Memorial Garden, St Serfs RC Primary School, Preston Street, High Valleyfield, Fife |
Valleyfield |
Valleyfield Mine Site, Newmills, Fife (South of B9037, just west of Newmills) |
Wallyford |
Salters’ Road, Wallyford, East Lothian |
Watson No.3 Colliery |
Corner of Watsonville Park and Barrie Street (off A721), Motherwell, North Lanarkshire |
West Wemyss - Sea Mine |
West Wemyss, 5 Miners Killed by a Sea Mine During WWII |
Whin Hall |
Whin Hall Memorial, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire |
Whitburn |
Market Place, Armadale Road, (A706) Whitburn, West Lothian |
Winchburgh Shale Miners |
In Winchburgh Village Churchyard, Winchburgh, West Lothian |
Woolmet Miners and workers |
Campview, Danderhall, Midlothian |
Woolmet Colliery |
Campview, Danderhall, Midlothian |