Garscadden Colliery
Location type
MineName and dates
Garscadden CollieryServed by the Peel Glen Waggonway (Merry and Cunningham).
Description
This colliery opened around 1866. It worked coal and ironstone and was owned by Merry and Cunningham. It consisted of at least three pits to the west of Garscadden Wood in the north of modern day Drumchapel. The pits were rail served. Pits were on either side of Peel Glen Road.
Ironstone was worked out by 1883 and coal in 1886.
Tags
Mine coal ironstone06/05/2019
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