Redding Colliery



Dates

  /  /1860Standrigg Colliery
Absorbed into Redding Colliery, new railways approach the colliery replacing the Union Canal
  /  /1894Redding Colliery
Lease taken by James Nimmo and Company, replacing the Duke of Hamilton who previously worked the colliery.
  /  /1896Redding Colliery
James Nimmo and Company sink new Redding Colliery No 23 shaft, on the north bank of the Union Canal and by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
25/09/1923Redding Colliery
Redding Pit Disaster, forty men drowned when water from old workings drains into newer workings at No23 Pit.
  /  /1958Redding Colliery
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