> The last SGMRG Newsletter included an article on Easton Colliery Bristol.
>
> Subsequently I came across a reference to NCB photographs of Easton
> Colliery
> now in the National Archives
>
>
>
> Having obtained a copy of these (5 in total) the first is a familiar
> surface
> picture of Easton Colliery Bristol described as 1890-1900 and on the NCB
> photographic record card for this is John Cornwell's address. The other
> four pictures all appear to be much later - 3 are of a "Swanwick Scavenger
> Plough on face line at No 7 Wilsontown Main Coal" and the date is 1965.
> N.B. Easton Colliery in Bristol closed in 1911
>
>
>
> The file the pictures are in is labeled
>
> National Coal Board. C.R.A. Mid-CANNOCK, Photographic Record, Unit:-
> Easton
> Colliery
>
> The index page has
>
> Unit - Easton, Area F of D
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>
>
> The Forest of Dean reference is odd unless the pictures are actually of
> Eastern United Colliery, but I believe that closed in 1959.
>
> There was of course also an Easton Colliery in Scotland, in Bathgate just
> outside Livingstone in West Lothian.
>
>
>
> Searching for Wilsontown Main on the Net gives scotish references
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>
>
> from A List of Collieries in 1993, from 'Guide to the Coalfields'
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> Rashiehill (L) Forth, Lanarkshire V. Wilson Wilsontown Main
>
> - The (L) means it is a private mine licenced by the Coal
> Authority
>
>
>
> And from the List of collieries at work in 1880. the following two mines
> in
> the Eastern Division of Lanarkshire
>
> - Wilsontown, L, Carwath, William Dixon Limited
>
> - Wilsontown, L, Carwath, Gavin Paull.
>
> My guess is that the NCB simply misfiled the 1965 pictures with the
> earlier
> one of the Bristol pit.
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>
>
> Any thoughts?
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>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> David Hardwick
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