Welcome to the Scottish Mining Website
The Scottish Mining Website aims to assist family and local history researchers by providing information on Scottish miners and mining areas, compiled from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles.
The mining accident section covers fatal accidents for the whole of Scotland. Between 1852 and 1914, these are primarily sourced from the Annual Reports of the Inspector of Mines. Outwith these years, lists of accidents have been compiled from newspaper articles, and other resources. The site currently contains more than 20,000 names of those involved in the mining industry in Scotland.
Other resources include information on miners housing, the 1842 Children's Employment Commission, lists of mines and collieries, a glossary of mining terms and a section on war memorials.
Recent Additions:
- Fascinating 1898 article giving names of 49 men with long service in pits. These men were born in the 1820s-1840s
- On the Expectoration of Black matter from the Lungs By George Steele, Esq., Surgeon, Musselburgh, 1837
- Chapter on housing from Mining In Mid and East Lothian, by And. S. Cunningham, 1925 (includes photographs of housing)
- 1939 Deaths
- List of collieries 1944 with maps
- Added transcriptions of official reports into Donibristle Disaster and Cadder Disaster
- Articles on Sanitary Condition and General Economy of the Town of Tranent, and the Neighbouring District in Haddingtonshire 1840, Miners & Weavers in Airdrie 1850, Phthisis in Coal Miners 1892
- See also What's New section