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K44msy92
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11 years ago

Does anyone out there know anything about this mine.....there is little known about it?? 😞

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Cuban Bloodhound
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11 years ago

Wiki:
"Edgehead Colliery was a coal mine located in Windmill Woods in the 19th and 20th century. It was initially owned by the Earl of Stair. Around 1930 ownership transferred to the Fordel Mains (Midlothian) Colliery Company, and it became part of the National Coal Board in 1949. The colliery was closed in 1959, and the site is now owned by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. In 1842 the mine employed 127 workers; by 1959 this had fallen to 40."

RCAHMS details:
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/134165/details/edgehead+colliery/

Picture of the pit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23291434@N03/2229572760/

Details on the firm that owned it:
http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/f1018.htm

Child miners:
http://www.ingenious.org.uk/site.asp?s=RM&Param=1&SubParam=3&Content=1&ArticleID=%7BF0327CA6-A725-4904-85A1-05CC05BFA0CF%7D&ArticleID2=%7B5EDC0F04-A927-43D5-8846-F449087CB312%7D&MenuLinkID=%7B16F39498-91D2-4F10-A72B-139EE32E319A%7D

http://www.ingenious.org.uk/site.asp?s=RMA&ArticleID=%7B8D8BB690-086F-45AA-967C-A5C3586CEE0D%7D

Do you know if there's anything left there?

K44msy92
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11 years ago

There is nothing left just random piles of bricks....there were two adits there about 30 yrs ago but they have long since been filled in.The wooded area surrounding the old drift mine suffers from serious subsidence and i can remember looking into one of the sink'ins and seing the shaft/tunnel only about 15feet from the surface.