Stanrigg Memorial
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Stanrigg MemorialOpened on the Monuments and Memorials.
Description
Stanrigg and Arbuckle Pit was owned by McCracken Bros and consisted of Arbuckle No 2 Pit (upcast), a downcast shaft and Stanrigg No 2 Pit (coal extraction). To the north was Stanrigg No 1 Pit on the Slamannan Railway.
This was the site of the Stanrigg Mining Disaster of the 9th July 1918. An inrush of water from the moss above flooded the pit south east of the number 3 pit in an area of mixed stoop and room and longwall mining. The mixture of techniques and unknown depth of the moss were highlighted in a later investigation.
77 men were underground. 19 men and boys were trapped and died. Of these the bodies of 11 were never recovered.
The memorial sets out the events and the names of those who died. It is a fine memorial set in bleak high moorland which has been mined and opencast.
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NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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| Nearby stations Arbuckle Plains Whiterigg Caldercruix Clarkston [Wester Moffat] Clarkston (Lanark) Drumgelloch Longriggend Rawyards Drumgelloch [1st] Airdrie Hallcraig Street Commonhead (Airdrie North) Airdrie [CR] Airdrie Airdrie [Leaend] | Coal Pit Coal Pit Coal Pit Stanrigg No 3 Pit Coal Pit Coal Pit Arbuckle No 2 Pit Old coal Pit Arden? Coal Pit Coal Pit Coal Pit Stanrigg No 1 Pit Thompson^s Hope Coal Pit (No 3) Ballochney Stanrigg Reservoir |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
