Welcome to the Scottish Mining Website
The Scottish Mining Website provides information on the history of Scottish mining, compiled from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles. The site includes information on all aspects of life in mining towns and villages from working conditions, accidents and strikes to housing, health and leisure. Currently the site contains more than 22,000 names of those involved in the coal, iron and shale mining industries in Scotland, including almost 14,000 fatalities.
Our mining accident section covers fatal accidents for the whole of Scotland, and is continually updated with new research. Other resources include information on miners housing, health, strikes, the 1842 Children's Employment Commission, lists of mines and collieries, a glossary of mining terms and a section on war memorials.
Recent Additions:
- A General View of the Coal Trade of Scotland Chiefly that of the River
Forth and Midlothian. To which is added an inquiry into the condition of
the women who carry
coals underground in Scotland, known by the name of bearers. By Robert Bald, Alloa, 1812
- Extracts on mining from "Romantic Culross, Torryburn, Carnock, Cairneyhill, Saline and Pitfirrane" By Andrew S. Cunningham, 1902
- New articles on early mining disasters
- Series of newspaper articles from 1871 on Lochgelly – Its Rise and Progress
- Coal Produced Before 1800 – From Coal Commission Report 1871
- Extracts from the Coal Industry Commission 1919
- 1843 petitions by colliers
- Memorial For The Colliers of Scotland, July 23, 1762
- See also What's New section