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Glesga_Steve wrote:

north glasgow dave wrote:i had to get a coalboard report when i bought this house..turns out theres an old mineshaft entrance 25 metres from my house.....

Isn't it standard practice to get a Coalboard report when buying a house?

I've had to get one for each of the three houses I've bought (mind you, each of them was in an area with a history of mining in reasonable proximity).

Yes it is and my present house is on a brownfield site, and the mortgage provider asked for further checks over and above the coal board report.
Mind you, there can't be any bits of industrial Lanarkshire that aren't riddled with mine shafts.
For that matter the upperward of Lanarkshire (the rural part) has the same problem due to the shale extraction in areas like Tarbrax.

wasnt there old terrace houses in belmont street. that just fell down.also tennements in springfield road parkhead just fell down.. think there was a few people killed in the parkhead collapse..

we had a cpo slapped on us in feb 1983 because of the building collapsing two closes down from us.duntocher rd dalmuir ,near the station.rear wall collapsed in the middle of the night.

was that a compulsary purchase order.

sure was dave.

OLD MINES ETC

Having worked in my younger years in Mine Survey Department of Central West Collieries of the Scottish Division of the NCB, I can advise Glaswergians that minerial underground extraction(coal,iron stone & fireclay workings) plans are available from approx. 1850 onwards.

Prior to the 1850, underground mine surveying was not carried out, with exception by some of the weathy land owners.

Around 1890 underground surveying became popular because the amount of mineral being removed by underground and open-cast extraction could check by surveying calculations. Thereby the mine owners could check to see if any manager or workers were helping themselve to the mineral being extracted.

Also mine owners could check the bonus calculations. Underground bonus was calculated on the amount of coal each face stripper could fill into a tub.

The Coal Aurothie in England olds all mine plans of the Scottish coalfields dating from some of the oldest records up to and encluding past day operations.

For email users the 'old-maps.co.uk can be very helpfull in locating old collieries and mines which are not located on present day O.S. maps or the Scottish Mining Musem at Lady Victoria Colliery, Netongrange, Mid Lothian.

For those that wish to find out a bit more regarding coal mining in scotland please feel free to contact me on [email protected], and will try to answer any questions.

Crusader Avenue in Knightswood has had a mine shaft collapse. Its likely to be the Western Colliery closed
in 1896 twin shaft. Tons of hard core are being poured in. GHA may have to demolish some houses.

Heard to-day that the two houses to the right of the hole in Crusader Ave are being pulled down on Monday.
Apparently 300 tons of whinstone have gone into the hole which goes down to around 140-160m or so.

Memorial To Blantyre Dixons Colliery Disaster.
Still After A Few Years Of This Monument Being Erected.
Not Convinced This Statue Is Appropriate "With The Miner Jumping
And Removing His Bunnet" Celebrating 200+ Deaths...

I remember the mine where Summerston Asda is,it ran along to the back of the primary school and the cemetery when I was young the ground around the mine was on fire for more than a year we could start fires by digging down an inch or two. Wonder how safe those houses built around there are, vent pipes can be seen in the office park near Killermont View.

Gerry B wrote:
Memorial To Blantyre Dixons Colliery Disaster.
Still After A Few Years Of This Monument Being Erected.
Not Convinced This Statue Is Appropriate "With The Miner Jumping
And Removing His Bunnet" Celebrating 200+ Deaths...

I agree Gerry and think it has nowhere near the class and dignity of the Auchengeich Memorial.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1514078

There's quite a lot of evidence of mining in Linn Park, including this hidden adit.

banjo wrote:we had a cpo slapped on us in feb 1983 because of the building collapsing two closes down from us.duntocher rd dalmuir ,near the station.rear wall collapsed in the middle of the night.

Co-incidentally my ex- wife's uncle, lived in that same block and was moved out due to subsidence. His name was Ian Taylor.

Are olk mines the reason that there have been more sinkholes recently? I heard one report that blam,ed heavy rain and don't really know a great deal about them.

The original entrance to Dixon's Mine(he of Dixon's Blazes) is on the north side of Allison St. at the corner with Cathcart Rd. The workings extend to Dumbreck.