Mining Memorials in Scotland
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Mining Memorials in Scotland Memorials Commemorating Disasters Auchengeich 18.9.1959 Auchengeigh Miners’ Welfare, Gartferry Road, Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire Auchengeich 18.9.1959 Condorrat Wall, by roundabout, North Road, Condorrat, North Lanarkshire Auchenharvie 2.8.1895 Auchenharvie Golf Course, Stevenston, North Ayrshire Barrwood 8.3.1878 Kilsyth Cemetery, Howe Road, Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire Blantyre 22.10.1877 High Blantyre Cemetery, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire 2.7.1879 Blantyre (RC miners) 22.10.1877 Dalbeth Cemetery, London Road, Glasgow (buried north west corner Section 9 in 11 lairs) Blantyre (centenary) 22.10.1877 Blantyre High Cross, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire Blantyre 22.10.1877 Statue at Westerpark Avenue, opposite Helmsdale Close, at the Hamilton Technology Park, Hamilton Bowhill 31.10.1931 Bowhill Cemetery, Bowhill, Fife Bowhill 31.10.1931 Plaque in Bowhill Community Centre, Station Road, Bowhill, Fife. Burngrange 10.1.1947 Town Centre, West Calder, West Lothian Burngrange 10.1.1947 Seafield Community Centre, Seafield, West Lothian Burngrange 10.1.1947 Seafield Bowling Club, Seafield, West Lothian Cadder (RC Miners Killed) 6.8.1913 St Kentigern’s RC Cemetery, directly north of access on Tresta Road, Glasgow Cadder 6.8.1913 Cadder Cemetry, corner of A803 and Crosshill Road, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire Cadder 6.8.1913 Centenary Memorial Bishopbriggs Library, Kirkintilloch Road, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire Cadder 6.8.1913 Centenary Memorial Lambhill Stables, Balmore Road, Glasgow Commonhead 23.7.1850 Commonside Street (opposite Commonhead Lane), Airdrie, North Lanarkshire Donnibristle 26.8.1901 Bridge Street, Cowdenbeath, Fife (west of road into Cowdenbeath from A92) Dumbreck 30.1.1938 Kilsyth Cemetery, Howe Road, Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire (Drumbreck on memorial) Fauldhouse (Fallahill) 20.10.1902 Miners Welfare, Bathgate Road, Fauldhouse, West Lothian Kaimes 19.11.1957 Bench in New Muirkirk New Cemetery, Glasgow Road, Muirkirk, East Ayrshire Knockshinnoch 7.9.1950 Knockshinnoch Colliery site, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire Lindsay 14.12.1957 Junction of Station Road and A909, Kelty, Fife Mauricewood 5.9.1889 Mauricewood Road, Penicuik, Midlothian Michael 9.9.1967 Main Road, East Wemyss, Fife (south of Main Road at St Mary’s Terrace) Mosside 22.9.1939 Leaend Road, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire Nitshill 15.3.1851 Nitshill Road, Glasgow (west of A726 at Nitshill Railway Station) Plean 13.7.1922 Main Street, Plean, Stirlingshire (west end of High Street) Plean 13.7.1922 Main Street, Plean, Stirlingshire (near Primary School) Quarrelton 2.5.1818 Wee Wood, Johnstone, Renfrewshire (Quarrelton Road / Beith Road junction) and Benston 25.7.1860 Redding 25.9.1923 Redding Cross, Redding Road and Main Street, Redding, nr Falkirk Seafield 10.5.1973 CISWO Club, Kingdom Way, Glenrothes, Fife (Due to relocate to premises in vicinity of Rothes Halls early 2017) Stanrigg 9.7.1918 Plains, North Lanarkshire (on side of back road off A89 just east of Plains) Stanrigg 9.7.1918 Stanrigg Memorial Park, Meikle Drumgray Road, Wattston, North Lanarkshire Stanrigg 9.7.1918 Stanrigg Memorial Community Hall ans Sports Centre, Greengairs, North Lanarkshire Udston 28.5.1887 South Lanarkshire Council Offices, Brandon Gate, Brandon Street, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Udston 28.5.1887 Priestknowe Roundabout, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire (junction of Whitemoss Av, West Mains Rd, Stuart St, Churchill Av) Valleyfield 28.10.1939 Valleyfield Avenue, High Valleyfield, Fife Valleyfield 28.10.1939 Valleyfield Mine Site, Newmills, Fife (South of B9037, just west of Newmills) Valleyfield 28.10.1939 Plaques in Valleyfield Club, Kinloss Court, High Valleyfield, Fife Valleyfield 28.10.1939 Memorial Garden, St Serfs RC Primary School, Preston Street, High Valleyfield, Fife Memorials - To Miners including those Killed in Mines Addiewell and Loganlea Memorial Garden Moorlands Gardens, Loganlea, West Lothian Auchinleck Memorial Garden and walkway Well Road, Auchinleck, East Ayrshire Auchinleck Roundabout (A76) Mauchline Road, Auchinleck Barony Colliery Barony Colliery, Auchinleck, East Ayrshire Benarty Ballingray, Fife (East of B920 opposite junction with Hill Road) Bilston Glen Miners Clark Street, Loanhead, Midlothian Blairhall Rintoul Avenue, Blairhall, Fife Bo’ness Bo’ness, Falkirk (corner of Union Street and Seaview Place) Bowhill (Jamphlars) Plaque 1 Bowhill, Fife (at Hutch and wheel) Bowhill Plaque 2 Bowhill, Fife (at Hutch and wheel) Bowhill Hutch and wheel Bowhill View, Cardenden, Fife Cambuslang Hamilton Road, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire Cowie Main Street, Cowie, Stirlingshire (opposite Community Centre) Dailly Dailly, South Ayrshire (Corner of West End and Bridge Street (B741)) Easthouses Miners Easthouses Industrial Estate, Midlothian Fallin opposite junction with Castle View, Fallin, Stirlingshire Fishcross Fishcross, Clackmannanshire (In Park at Lawswell, east of Alloa Road) Frances Colliery On Coastal Path at Edington Place, Dysart, Fife Galston Barr Street, Galston, East Ayrshire 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 Harthill West Main Street / Bank Road, Harthill, North Lanarkshire Kelty Collieries Entrance to Blairadam Forrest, nr Kelty, Fife (B914 Kelty to Saline west of M90) Kelty Village Square In Village Square, next to Kelty Library, Cocklaw Street, Kelty, Fife Kilsyth Miners Memorial Park Charles St & East Burnside St, Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire Kingseat At junction of Main Street (B912) and Church Street, Kingseat, Fife Kirkconnel Main Street, Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway Kirkconnel Mine Head Wheel , Polveach Terrace, Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway Kirkconnel Mine A Frame, Auchengour Allotments, Kelloholm, Kirkconnel. Lochgelly Lochgelly Square, Lochgelly, Fife Lochore Lochore Meadows, Ballingary, Fife (at entrance and in park) Monktonhall Miners Campview, Danderhall, Midlothian 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 New Cumnock, East Ayrshire (east of Castle or New Cumnock Main Street behind bus stop lay by) Plean Plean Country Park, near Plean, Stirlingshire Prestongrange Colliery Families On the south side of Prestonpans High Street (B1348) just east of junction with Prestongrange Road Quarter Quarter Church, Quarter, South Lanarkshire Rowanburn At side of A6357, Rowanburn, north of Canonbie, Dumfries and Galloway (is a memorial to miner killed at Rowanburn Colliery Sauchie Sauchie, Clackmannanshire (Mar Place and Fairfield Rd) Skares Skares, on B7046 south west of Cumnock, East Ayrshire Townhill Mining Heritage Garden, Townhill, near Dunfermline, Fife Stoneyburn and Bents In Foulshiels Park, Stoneyburn and Bents, West Lothian Wallyford Salters’ Road, Wallyford, East Lothian Watson No.3 Colliery Corner of Watsonville Park and Barrie Street (off A721), Motherwell, North Lanarkshire Winchburgh Shale Miners In Winchburgh Village Churchyard, Winchburgh, West Lothian Woolmet Colliery Campview, Danderhall, Midlothian Other Benwhat Village Site of Benwhat village, off A713 north - west of Dalmellington, East Ayrshire (June 2013) Blantyre Blantyre Miners Welfare, Calder Street, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire Bothwell Castle Miners Flower Garden, Blantyre Road and B7071 Uddingston Road, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire Bothwell Castle Colliery Bothwell Village Community Hall, Fallside Road , Bothwell , South Lanarkshire Bothwellhaugh Village Strathclyde Country, South Lanarkshire Broxburn / Uphall north side of Goshen Place (A899) at boundary of Broxburn and Uphall, West Lothian Broxburn & Uphall Shale People murals along and either side of A899 in Uphall and Broxburn, West Lothian Cairntable Village B730 South of Drongan, East Ayrshire Child Miners of Scotland Campview, Danderhall, Midlothian Cumnock Glaisknock Shopping Centre, Cumnock, East Ayrshire ((Centre to be demolished soon) Dalmellington Mining Villages Standing Stones to 7 mining villages in Doon Valley (1999), off A713 north of Dalmellington, East Ayrshire Dalmellington South of Carspharin Road (A713) by War Memorial Bellsbank Road, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire East Lothian Mines on Pencaitland Railway Walk Carberry to West Saltoun, East Lothian Memorials to Oxenford Pit Bellyford Pit Limeyands Pit Meadow Pit Elphinstone (Bog, Howden, Fleets Pits) Ormiston Station Pit Woodhall Pit Huntlaw Pit Francis A Frame Off and to the south of A955 east of Dysart Glencraig Village On east side of B920 north of Lochgelly Glenrothes Rothes Halls, Kingdom Centre, Glenrothes, Fife Lady Blanch Pit Currently in Dysart Town Hall. Permanent site proposed at Howard Place, Rectory Lane, Dysart Livingston at an entry to Almondvale Centre next to Primark, off Almondvale Boulevard, West Lothian Miners Of The World Memorial Hutch Crowhill Road, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire Prestonpans High Street, Prestonpans, East Lothian Polmaise Colliery Polmaise Colliery Museum, Fallin, Stirlinghire Rigside At side of A70 at entry to Rigside village, South Lanarkshire Seafield Colliery Bowhouse Drive, Kirkcaldy, Fife Shotts Dykehead Cross, Station Road, Shotts, North Lanarkshire