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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Grimebridge Colliery A hard-coal Rossendale pit of 1851, reopened by its own colliers and worked until 1996.	Lancashire	1851–November 1963	Coal
Gomersal Colliery A hand-got Yorkshire pit closed for fear of flooding after Lofthouse, now part of Oakwell Hall's park.	West Yorkshire	1916–June 1973	Coal
Swadlincote Colliery A Swadlincote pit of 1852 that set a national productivity record three years before it closed.	Derbyshire	1852–February 1965	Coal
Nantewlaeth Colliery A deep upper Afan valley pit with its own miners' halt, closed within two years of nationalisation.	Neath Port Talbot	1915–November 1948	Coal
Hawkins Colliery A family pit at Cheslyn Hay for nearly a century, where a 1900 cage accident sent its winder to trial.	Staffordshire	c. 1840–April 1960	Coal, Ironstone
Bretby Colliery The Earl of Carnarvon's colliery at Newhall Park, worked for 86 years until 1962.	Derbyshire	1872–May 1962	Coal, Fireclay
Newmillerdam Colliery A small Wakefield drift mine whose men were promised jobs at a new drift when it closed in 1981.	West Yorkshire	1929–1981	Coal
New Monckton Colliery A six-shaft Royston giant with its own coke works, closed on economic grounds in 1966.	West Yorkshire	1874–3 December 1966	Coal
Ramcroft Colliery A wartime pit mothballed for ten years, reopened for the next war, and struck in 1957 over the canteen tea.	Derbyshire	1916 (reopened 1939)–October 1966	Coal
Shirland Colliery A Derbyshire pit the South Yorkshire miners' union bought in 1875, worked for a century until 1965.	Derbyshire	1864–May 1965	Coal
Arnghyll Colliery A Durham coking-coal drift that opened and shut repeatedly over forty years.	County Durham	By 1915–5 May 1951	Coal
Stagshaw Bank Colliery A tiny Tynedale landsale pit in the limestone coal that only became a Coal Board mine in 1953.	Northumberland	By 1882–4 October 1958	Coal
Barmoor Colliery A Morpeth landsale pit that changed hands five times and still outlasted most of its neighbours.	Northumberland	By 1882–26 October 1962	Coal, Fireclay
Nettlesworth Colliery A Victorian pit that became a pumping station, then lent its name to a drift that worked into the 1970s.	County Durham	1861–27 September 1974	Coal
Crookhall Colliery The pit that made Crookhall village, later a coking-coal mine for the Consett ironworks.	County Durham	1839–9 November 1963	Coal, Fireclay
Lambley Colliery A small pit in a remote Northumberland coalfield that the Coal Board grew to nearly two hundred men.	Northumberland	By 1850–16 August 1958	Coal
Tirherbert Colliery A Hirwaun level west of Tower whose fan-house ruin was recorded on Hirwaun Common in 2009.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1914–24 December 1958	Coal
Islwyn Level A sixty-year family level in the Sirhowy valley that grew from seven men to seventy.	Caerphilly	1888–December 1948	Coal
Rockwood Colliery A Taffs Well drift reopened on the eve of the war and worked by tunnels and diesel trains into the 1960s.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1905 (reopened 1937)–May 1963	Coal
Glyntillery Colliery The first South Wales colliery to run electric locomotives underground.	Torfaen	c. 1913–January 1976	Coal
Thinacres Mine A small Overwood company drift on ground first mined in the 1870s, worked into the 1960s.	South Lanarkshire	1938 (some accounts 1939)–May 1963	Coal
Newfield Colliery A wartime Kenneth family pit that the Coal Board turned into a surface mine.	South Ayrshire	1940 (reopened 1948)–August 1956	Coal
Hindsward Colliery A Cumnock pit opened three times in a century, last by a private firm that kept it going into the 1980s.	East Ayrshire	1880–1988	Coal
Overtown Colliery A Coltness pit closed so the Coal Board could sink its shafts another 125 metres for coking coal.	North Lanarkshire	1931 (earlier pits by 1862)–January 1968	Coal
Cronberry Moor Colliery A Cronberry pit with a washer that cleaned its neighbours' coal and a morphia scheme for its injured.	East Ayrshire	c. 1920–March 1957	Coal
Coatspark Colliery A 1930s 'ingoing eye' that revived the oldest way of winning coal at Cambuslang.	South Lanarkshire	By 1933–May 1958	Coal
Woodside Colliery A small Dalserf pit that lasted more than a century, from 1848 into the Coal Board years.	South Lanarkshire	1848–July 1955	Coal
Lochend Colliery A Lanarkshire pit whose cone-topped bing, 'The Mexican's Hat', is a landmark and a scheduled monument.	North Lanarkshire	c. 1880–December 1948	Coal
Forthbank Colliery A Coal Board mine planned to last 24 years that grew to nearly a thousand men and closed after nine.	Clackmannanshire	1892 (reopened 1947)–January 1958	Coal
Melloch Colliery A wartime reopening of an old Ochils working, run as an outpost of Tillicoultry mine.	Clackmannanshire	c. 1850 (reopened 1939)–1948	Coal
Avonbraes Colliery A tiny post-war drift whose coal crossed the Avon Water by bridge and climbed out of the gorge by incline.	South Lanarkshire	1949 (production 1952)–May 1965	Coal
Enterkine Colliery Annbank's big pit, where seven men and boys died in a firedamp explosion in 1898.	South Ayrshire	1878–November 1959 (abandoned 1960)	Coal, Fireclay
Lugar Mine A wartime drift mine opened by the Bairds combine at the old ironworks village of Lugar.	East Ayrshire	1942–December 1953 (abandoned 1954)	Coal
Bourtreehill Colliery An Ayrshire colliery that was as much a pottery, famous for its white enamelled sinks.	North Ayrshire	By 1872–1924	Coal, Fireclay
Meadowmill Mine A short-lived Coal Board drift on an old washer site, now a dry ski slope.	East Lothian	1952 (production 1953)–June 1960 (abandoned December 1962)	Coal
Isle of Canty Colliery The Alloa Coal Company's last new mine, and the first pit the National Coal Board ever closed.	Fife	1939–1948 (abandoned 1949)	Coal
Bellyford Mine An old Ormiston pit brought back by the Coal Board, which took in the men of its neighbour Limeylands.	East Lothian	1866 (reopened 1949)–November 1961 (abandoned December 1962)	Coal
Torry Mine A Coal Board drift built to leave no mark on the countryside, its coal sent through tunnels to Valleyfield.	Fife	1951 (production 1953)–June 1965	Coal
Sorn Mine A post-war Coal Board drift that was meant to last 25 years and worked for thirty.	East Ayrshire	1952 (production 1953)–April 1983	Coal
Dollar Mine A small Clackmannanshire mine that set a national record for a single coalface in 1962.	Clackmannanshire	1943–May 1973	Coal
Callendar Colliery An estate colliery that was half a brickworks, digging fireclay and blaes alongside its coal for a century.	Falkirk	By 1855 (estate workings from 1830)–November 1959 (Policy Pit)	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Warrix Colliery Sunk in the middle of a strike, its first coal carted off and sold while pickets tried to stop the work.	North Ayrshire	1894–November 1950	Coal, Fireclay
Oxenford Colliery One of the last Ormiston pits, given a new shaft by the Coal Board in 1949 and worked for another decade.	East Lothian	1854–January 1959 (some accounts 1962)	Coal
Hillhouserigg Colliery A Shotts Iron Company pit worked for a century, from the ironworks' early years to the first years of the Coal Board.	North Lanarkshire	1850–April 1949	Coal, Ironstone
Rankinston Colliery An ironmasters' pit sunk two hundred metres to a two-foot band of ironstone, whose bing still stands over Rankinston.	East Ayrshire	By 1880–1913 (ironstone workings abandoned)	Coal, Ironstone
Barbauchlaw Colliery An Armadale mine that raised steam coal and fireclay, with a brickworks alongside.	West Lothian	1900 (earlier pits by 1856)–February 1952 (abandoned 1953)	Coal, Fireclay
Wellsgreen Colliery A Fife Coal Company pit in the Dysart Main, the thickest seam in Fife, now under a golf driving range.	Fife	1884-1890 (sinking)–April 1959	Coal
Ferniegair Colliery A Hamilton pit where an electric coal-cutter's cable fired gas in 1909 and the widows took the owners to court.	South Lanarkshire	c. 1850–February 1947	Coal
Canderrigg Colliery Stonehouse's biggest employer after the looms fell silent, cutting coal by machine in seams eighteen inches high.	South Lanarkshire	By 1905–January 1954 (some accounts 1958)	Coal
Thankerton Colliery Holytown's big pit, worked for over a century and employing more than 700 when it was nationalised.	North Lanarkshire	1850–December 1953 (abandoned 1954)	Coal
Southfield Colliery The Shotts Iron Company's big inter-war colliery at Shotts, with over 500 men at nationalisation.	North Lanarkshire	1920 (sinking)–May 1959	Coal
Dullatur Colliery A 1930s anthracite drift mine near Cumbernauld whose brick pithead buildings still stand.	North Lanarkshire	1935 (earlier workings by 1899)–May 1964	Coal
Coalburn Colliery, New Cumnock A New Cumnock pit first leased by the manager of the Marquis of Bute's pottery, worked on a small scale for over a century.	East Ayrshire	1854 (present mine 1924)–February 1962	Coal
Broomside Colliery A shallow Motherwell pit where waste was being stowed hydraulically as early as 1911.	North Lanarkshire	1869–October 1948 (abandoned 1950)	Coal
Ardenrigg Colliery An anthracite pit on the moor above Plains whose coal rode an aerial ropeway down to the brickworks at Stepends.	North Lanarkshire	1908–June 1963	Coal
Hassockrigg Colliery A Coltness Iron Company pit between Shotts and Harthill, worked from the 1870s until 1962.	North Lanarkshire	By 1876–1962	Coal
Pirnhall Colliery A Carron Company drift mine on the edge of Stirling, worked in tandem with Bannockburn Colliery.	Stirling	1933 (earlier workings by 1867)–1963	Coal
Shieldmains Colliery An Ayrshire colliery of fourteen numbered pits and mines, the last of them worked until 1950.	East Ayrshire	By 1900–March 1950	Coal
Craigrie Colliery A Clackmannan pit sketched by Lord Eldin about 1770, still winding coal for the Alloa Coal Company in 1952.	Clackmannanshire	1852 (reopened 1942)–August 1952 (abandoned 1957)	Coal
Littlemill Colliery Rankinston's pit, rebuilt in the 1950s with a 325-metre shaft, whose closure in 1974 emptied the village.	East Ayrshire	1860 (some accounts 1905)–June 1974	Coal
Fortissat Colliery A Shotts moorland pit worked for coal and ironstone, remembered now by the remains of Scobie's Bing.	North Lanarkshire	By 1875–1949	Coal
Tillicoultry Colliery The Clackmannanshire drift mine that gave television its first live broadcast from underground, in 1952.	Clackmannanshire	1866 (first listed)–18 January 1957 (abandoned 1959)	Coal
Woodmuir Colliery West Lothian's 'Blinky', whose tall brick washery still stands among the fields at Breich.	West Lothian	By 1859–1963	Coal
Carriden Colliery A Bo'ness colliery sunk at the start of the First World War in a parish mined since the thirteenth century.	Falkirk	By 1905–January 1953 (abandoned 1954)	Coal
Polquhairn Colliery An Ayrshire house-coal pit that found a second life beyond a whin dyke and lasted until 1962.	East Ayrshire	1895–August 1962	Coal
Capledrae Colliery A Fife cannel-coal colliery deliberately drowned with a diverted burn to put out a fire in 1888.	Fife	By 1837–1889	Coal
Muirbeath Colliery The last pits sunk in Dunfermline's own burgh coalfield at Highholm, worked for twenty years.	Fife	1894 (sinking from 1892)–1914	Coal
Preston Island Colliery A baronet's island colliery in the Firth of Forth, built to fire salt pans and ended by an explosion within a decade.	Fife	By 1807 (sinking from c. 1800)–1811	Coal
Little Raith Colliery A Cowdenbeath colliery that probably lent its name to an early Raith Rovers, a forerunner of Cowdenbeath F.C.	Fife	By 1852–1959	Coal
Grangemouth Colliery A Forth-side colliery whose clay won honours at the Great Exhibition and whose subsidence made rare saline lagoons.	Falkirk	1839–1911–1912	Coal
Lanemark Colliery The New Cumnock colliery that housed its miners in the South Boig rows and lent its name to a football club.	East Ayrshire	1865–1908	Coal
Gilbertfield Colliery Cambuslang's 'slaughter house' pit, whose miners pulled their way to a national tug-of-war title.	South Lanarkshire	1880 (sinking)–1919	Coal
Banknock Colliery A Stirlingshire colliery whose spoil heaps outlived it by fifty years as a brickworks' raw material.	Falkirk	By 1869–c. 1931	Coal
Gilmerton Colliery Three centuries of edge-coal mining on Edinburgh's doorstep, ended by a fire that sealed the pit for good.	Midlothian	1627 (first record)–1961 (abandoned 1963)	Coal
Arniston Colliery Gorebridge's colliery, whose Emily shaft was said to be the deepest in Scotland when it was sunk.	Midlothian	1858 (some accounts 1860s)–April 1962	Coal
Clara Vale Colliery A pit village named after the coal owner's wife, built with the colliery in 1893 and still standing apart.	Tyne and Wear	1893 (sinking from 1891)–1966	Coal
Randolph Colliery, Evenwood Evenwood's big pit, whose coke and gas works outlived it by twenty-two years.	County Durham	1893–1962	Coal
Midgeholme Colliery A Pennine-edge coalfield worked for over three hundred years, whose coal once rode behind Stephenson's Rocket.	Cumbria	1628 (first record)–1954	Coal
Howden Colliery A North Bitchburn company pit that worked every one of its parent colliery's seams except the Brockwell.	County Durham	1860s (first record)–1907	Coal
East Walbottle Colliery A small Edwardian pit that lasted into the 1960s and kept its pithead baths.	Tyne and Wear	1908–1966	Coal
East Howle Colliery A colliery lit, signalled and pumped by electricity in 1894 that worked out its coal within thirty-three years.	County Durham	1872–1905	Coal
Hutton Henry Colliery A twenty-one-year colliery that took a village from 156 people to over 3,000 and then stopped paying.	County Durham	1876–1897	Coal
Shincliffe Colliery A colliery won amid celebration in 1839 whose village, emptied by its closure, lost even its name.	County Durham	1839 (sinking from 1837)–1875 (abandoned 1886)	Coal
Spital Tongues Colliery The colliery that tunnelled under a city to reach its river, then failed within twenty years.	Tyne and Wear	1835 (sinking from 1833)–1858 (some accounts 1860)	Coal
Prestwick Colliery A Ponteland pit worked on and off from 1771 to 1966 that never employed two hundred men.	Northumberland	1771–1966	Coal
Brusselton Colliery A small south-west Durham pit that the Coal Board tripled in size in the 1950s.	County Durham	1834–1968	Coal
Dunston Colliery A Bowes pit that worked for a year, lay idle for fifteen, then ran for over half a century.	Tyne and Wear	1875 (first sunk 1873)–1947	Coal
Rough Lea Colliery The largest of Hunwick's pits, whose fireclay pipe works outlived it by forty years.	County Durham	1858–1931	Coal
North Bitchburn Colliery A Stobart colliery with its own pipe works that employed nearly a thousand in 1902 and is now a wood.	County Durham	1845–1966	Coal
Woodhouse Close Colliery A colliery won in 1837 that ended as a 28-foot drift, its pit heaps levelled for a post-war housing estate.	County Durham	1835–1934	Coal
Sunniside Colliery A hilltop Pease pit whose village of 1,500 emptied towards the coast after 1925.	County Durham	1867–1925 (reopened 1937-1965)	Coal
West Sleekburn Colliery A modest Bedlington pit that employed nearly a thousand in the 1920s, now marked only by a vent pipe.	Northumberland	1859–1962	Coal
Delves Colliery A Consett Iron Company pit first worked by Mormons, which named it the Latter Day Saints pit.	County Durham	1847–1963 (Saints Pit closed 1913)	Coal
Tyne Main Colliery Its Friar's Goose engine house, the last pumping station built to keep the Tyne out of the lower river's collieries, still stands.	Tyne and Wear	1798–1926	Coal
Stobswood Colliery A Northumberland pit that stayed small for forty years, then quadrupled and broke production records in the 1940s.	Northumberland	1875–1965	Coal
Toronto Colliery A Wear-side colliery named after Toronto, whose village kept the Canadian name.	County Durham	1859 (sinking from 1857)–1967 (last plans 1976)	Coal
Eldon Colliery A Pease colliery of 1829 that employed nearly 2,000 at its 1921 peak and was pulled down within two years of closing.	County Durham	1829–1932	Coal
Byers Green Colliery A Bolckow, Vaughan coking colliery that passed through six owners in ninety years.	County Durham	1841 (sinking from 1840)–1931	Coal
Croxdale Colliery A Weardale company colliery whose village streets still carry the names of the men who paid for its houses.	County Durham	1875 (Thornton Pit sunk 1876)–1934	Coal
Aberfoyle Slate Quarries Scotland's 'tartan slate' quarries, which outlasted most of the country's slate industry and reopened after the Second World War.	Stirling	1625 (first record)–1954 (some accounts 1958)	Slate