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
Benston 25.7.1860 Wee Wood, Johnstone, Renfrewshire (Quarrelton Road / Beith Road junction)
[Joint memorial with Quarelton Disaster]
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 Cemetery, 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
Kames 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)
[Joint memorial with Benston Disaster]
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 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
Allanton Kingshill Miners Allanton, North Lanarkshire
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 Miners Outside new Kelty Library, 80 – 82 Main 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
800 Years Mining in the Lothians Coalfields Campview, Danderhall, Midlothian
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
Coaltown of Wemyss Main Street (A955) at its junction with Lochhead Pit Road
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, Fife
Glencraig Village On east side of B920 north of Lochgelly, Fife
Glenrothes Rothes Halls, Kingdom Centre, Glenrothes, Fife
Lady Blanch Pit Currently in Dysart Town Hall. Permanent site proposed at Howard Place, Rectory Lane, Dysart, Fife
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 Industries High Street, Prestonpans, East Lothian
Prestonpans Mining Triangular area junction of Schaw Road and Bankton Terrace (B1361), 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 In pavement at Dykehead Cross, Station Road, Shotts, North Lanarkshire
Valleyfield Colliery Valleyfield Mine Site, Newmills, Fife (South of B9037, just west of Newmills)
Whitburn Market Place, Armadale Road,(A706) Whitburn, West Lothian
War Memorials to Miners who worked at Specified Collieries or towns
Balgonie Colliery and Estate Victoria Hall, Main Street, Coaltown of Balgonie, Fife
Baillieston Library Miner Spanish Civil War Baillieston Library, Main Street, Baillieston (A89), Glasgow
Blantyre Miners Spanish Civil War Blantyre Miners Welfare, Calder Street, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire
Irvine Library Miner Spanish Civil War Irvine Library, High Street, Irvine, North Ayrshire
Lochore (Mary Pit) Lochore Miners Institute, Lochleven Road, Lochore, Fife
Seafield Oil Works Seafield Community Centre, Seafield, West Lothian
Standburn (Muiravonside &Redford Collieries) Standburn village on B825 between Avonbridge and A801, Falkirk
Halls
Kirkconnel Miners Memorial Hall Needle Street, Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway
Politicians / Union Men with mining links / Mining Men
James Brown MP Weston Avenue, Annbank, (B744) South Ayrshire
Andrew Fisher Memorial Cairn to east side of B7521 just north of Kilmarnock Road, Crosshouse, East Ayrshire
Andrew Fisher Memorial Stone at Lindsay Park, Annandale Gardens, south of B7081,Crosshouse, By Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire
Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher Library, Annandale Gardens, south of B7081, Crosshouse, By Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire
Keir Hardie Keir Hardie Memorial Primary School, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire
Keir Hardie Keir Hardie Sports Centre, Main Street Holytown, North Lanarkshire
Keir Hardie Statue of Keir Hardie, Cumnock Town Hall, Glaisknock Street, Cumnock, East Ayrshire
Keir Hardie Keir Hardie Room, The Baird Institute, 3 Lugar Street, Cumnock, East Ayrshire
Mick McGahey Part of Cambuslang Memorial, Hamilton Road, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire
Mick McGahey George V Park, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian
Robert Smillie Memorial Arch and Park, Broomhill Gate / Gallowhill Road, Larkhall, South Lanarkshire
Robert Smillie Robert Smillie Memorial Primary School, Glen Avenue, Larkhall, South Lanarkshire
James Stirling Curfew Bell, Leadhills, South Lanarkshire
Miners’ Strike
Miners’ Strike 1984 – 85 Plaque in Bowhill Community Centre, Station Road, Bowhill, Fife
Miners’ Strike 1984 - 85 Lochore Meadows, Ballingray, Fife
Miner’s Strike 1984 - 85 East Main Street, Whitburn, (A705) West Lothian
Others
Miner killed in New Zealand Bench at Back Wynd Car Park, crossroads Gowrie Street and East Bridge Street, Perth, Perth and Kinross
Suggested / Planned Memorials
Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire
Cardowan Colliery, Glasgow
Fauldhouse Area
To Obtain Information
HIghhouse Industrial Site, East Ayrshire
Brora, Sutherland
File updated 3.11.2017
Note 1 – There was a mining memorial at Cambuslang Industrial estate and one at Blackridge on cycle path near Blackridge, West Lothian. The latter was demlolished during the construction of the Bathgate to Airdrie railway. There was a memorial on Woolmet Bing, by Danderhall, but the hutch from this memorial has been incorporated into the memorials Danderhall, Midlothian. The Charles Carlow Memorial Miners Convalescent Home at Blairs Castle, Culross, Fife is now the home of The Scottish Mining Convalescent Trust.
Note 2 – There are two memorials to Spanish Civil War which carry the names of miners involved in and who died in the Spanish Civil. As they are not mining / miner specific memorials they have not been included in this list. One memorial is in Glasgow and the other in Kirkcaldy.
BY LOCAL AUTHORITY AREA
Clackmannashire
Fishcross Fishcross, Clackmannanshire (In Park at Lawswell, east of Alloa Road)
Sauchie Sauchie, Clackmannanshire (Mar Place and Fairfield Rd)
Dumfries and Galloway
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
Kirkconnel Miners Memorial Hall Needle Street, Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway
Rowanburn At side of A6357, Rowanburn, north of Canonbie, Dumfries and Galloway (is a memorial to miner killed at Rowanburn Colliery.
East Ayrshire
Auchinleck Memorial Garden and walkway Well Road, Auchinleck, East Ayrshire
Auchinleck Roundabout (A76) Mauchline Road, Auchinleck
Barony Colliery Barony Colliery, Auchinleck, East Ayrshire
Benwhat Village Site of Benwhat village, off A713 north- west of Dalmellington, East Ayrshire (June 2013)
Cairntable Village B730 South of Drongan, East Ayrshire
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
Andrew Fisher Memorial Cairn to east side of B7521 just north of Kilmarnock Road, Crosshouse, East Ayrshire
Andrew Fisher Memorial Stone at Lindsay Park, Annandale Gardens, south of B7081,Crosshouse, By Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire
Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher Library, Annandale Gardens, south of B7081, Crosshouse, By Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire
Galston Barr Street, Galston, East Ayrshire
Kames Disaster 19.11.1957 Bench in New Muirkirk New Cemetery, Glasgow Road, Muirkirk, East Ayrshire
Keir Hardie Statue of Keir Hardie, Cumnock Town Hall, Glaisknock Street, Cumnock, East Ayrshire
Keir Hardie Keir Hardie Room, The Baird Institute, 3 Lugar Street, Cumnock, East Ayrshire
Knockshinnoch Disaster 7.9.1950 Knockshinnoch Colliery site, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire
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
New Cumnock New Cumnock, East Ayrshire (east of The Castle or New Cumnock Main Street behind bus stop lay by)
Skares Skares, on B7046 south west of Cumnock, East Ayrshire
East Dunbartonshire
Cadder Disaster 6.8.1913 Cadder Cemetry, corner of A803 and Crosshill Road, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire