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