Welcome to the Scottish Mining Website
The Scottish Mining Website provides information on Scottish miners and mining areas, compiled from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles. We aim to cover all aspects of life in mining towns and villages from working conditions, accidents and strikes to housing, health and leisure. The site currently contains more than 22,000 names of those involved in the coal, iron and shale mining industries in Scotland.
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:
- 1843 petitions by colliers
- Memorial For The Colliers of Scotland, July 23, 1762
- Transcripts of 1941 accidents added
- New section on Trades' Unions & Strikes including Address to the Colliers of Ayrshire, 1824
- Chapter on Mining from Borrowstounness and District - Being Historical Sketches of Kinneil, Carriden, and Bo’ness c1550-1850 - By Thomas James Salmon, 1913
- Transcripts from Westwood's Parochial Directory for Fife 1862
- Reports on cholera in Scotland 1848-1849
- First report in a new section on immigrant miners - a 1907 report on "Polish" Miners
- Various papers on Black lung including details of more than 30 miners with the disease between years 1826 and 1835.
- Updated Minutes of Evidence from 1843 Poor Law Commission
- Complete transcription of "Among the Fife Miners" 1904
- Fascinating 1898 article giving names of 49 men with long service in pits. These men were born in the 1820s-1840s
- See also What's New section