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Mining In Muirkirk Today - BFI Bio France Isolation
Although better known today as a former coal mining area, Muirkirk in the past was a strategic centre for the iron industry, with Muirkirk Pig Iron being world renowned. RAILSCOT Muirkirk Iron Works The Muirkirk Ironworks were located south of present day Muirkirk.
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Iron industry in Muirkirk
2017-3-13 The village of Muirkirk is a historical Covenanter town locate on the eastern edge of Ayrshire, Scotland. Iron Industry in Muirkirk. Although better known today as a former coal mining area, Muirkirk in the past was a strategic centre for the iron industry, with Muirkirk Pig Iron being world renowned. Muirkirk Pig Iron.
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Auldhouseburn 1898 - Scottish Mining Website
2018-1-9 Muirkirk, Friday night - A serious mining disaster occurred this morning in Bankhead pit of the Auldhouseburn Colliery, Muirkirk. While cross-cutting to extend the workings to the eastward, the men accidentally tapped an abandoned pit at Crossflat, and the water rushing in with great rapidity, those in the pit bottom escaped with the greatest difficulty, while the miners engaged in the upper workings
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Double restoration success for Banks Mining Agg-Net
2019-4-30 The highly skilled team were able to transform the previously unsightly surface mines into what can be seen today – an attractive landscape in keeping with the surrounding Muirkirk/Glenbuck valley. Cheryl Hynd, Muirkirk Community Association
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Kames 1957 - Scottish Mining Website
2018-1-9 Scottish mine rescue teams, wearing breathing apparatus, today brought to the surface at Kames Colliery, Muirkirk, the bodies of 17 Ayrshire miners, all Muirkirk men, killed last night in the underground explosion at the pit.
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Muirkirk Ironworks Canmore
2021-5-19 RCAHMS Afforestable Land Survey, Muirkirk (1:2500), Strathclyde. The Ironworks at Muirkirk was established in 1787, a year after the founding of a Tarworks at Kames (NS62NE 16.0). As a by-product of the manufacturing process, the Tarworks produced large quantities of coke and this acted as an added incentive to the ironmasters.
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Muirkirk - Ayrshire
2015-7-28 Muirkirk Parish 100 years ago. East of Sorn.The town of Muirkirk stands near the centre of the parish, on Ayr Water, four miles from its source, 27 miles east-north-east by railway from Ayr.Being built on a straggling plan, with most of its houses one story, it lines a long length of roads; and though it contains fully as many inhabitants as Old Cumnock, it posses much more the appearance of a ...
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Scottish coal mines restored - Mining Magazine
2018-10-1 In just over two years, a 15-strong, predominantly local, team from Banks Mining has completed the challenging restoration, working on behalf of East Ayrshire
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Muirkirk, Scotland - Miners Statue Great britain united ...
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Railways in Muirkirk Ayrshire Scotland
2017-3-13 1962 - Mr W. McCubbin is the new Stationmaster at Muirkirk. Mr McCubbin, who was formerly in charge at Cronberry and Lugar, will continue to control the three stations; Porters. William Rae (later relief signalman at Muirkirk and Inches Stations) Signalmen. William Rae - relief signalman at Muirkirk and Inches Stations) Yardman
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RAILSCOT Muirkirk Iron Works
2020-8-3 The Muirkirk Ironworks were located south of present day Muirkirk. They were established in what was a remote area by John Robertson , John Gillies , and Thomas Edington . The works were built in 1787 and opened in 1788, two years after the Muirkirk Tar Works (where Tar McAdam was invented), as ore, limestone and coal were all mined locally.
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Mining team reflect on restoration of derelict East ...
2019-5-3 The highly skilled team were able to take the unsightly surface mines and transform them into what we see today – an attractive landscape in keeping with the surrounding Muirkik / Glenbuck valley. Cheryl Hynd, Muirkirk Community Association member says: “The Ponesk and Spireslack sites, have now been fully restored by the Banks Mining team.
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Kames 1957 - Scottish Mining Website
2018-1-9 Scottish mine rescue teams, wearing breathing apparatus, today brought to the surface at Kames Colliery, Muirkirk, the bodies of 17 Ayrshire miners, all Muirkirk men, killed last night in the underground explosion at the pit.
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Muirkirk - Ayrshire
2015-7-28 Muirkirk Parish 100 years ago. East of Sorn.The town of Muirkirk stands near the centre of the parish, on Ayr Water, four miles from its source, 27 miles east-north-east by railway from Ayr.Being built on a straggling plan, with most of its houses one story, it lines a long length of roads; and though it contains fully as many inhabitants as Old Cumnock, it posses much more the appearance of a ...
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Scottish coal mines restored - Mining Magazine
2018-10-1 In just over two years, a 15-strong, predominantly local, team from Banks Mining has completed the challenging restoration, working on behalf of East Ayrshire Council and the Scottish Mines Restoration Trust (SMRT) - an independent, non-profit organisation set up to facilitate the restoration of abandoned opencast coal sites
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Latest News in Muirkirk in Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland ...
Follow the latest news for Muirkirk in Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland, UK - Local news and information in your area
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Double restoration success for Banks Mining Agg-Net
2019-4-30 The highly skilled team were able to transform the previously unsightly surface mines into what can be seen today – an attractive landscape in keeping with the surrounding Muirkirk/Glenbuck valley. Cheryl Hynd, Muirkirk Community Association member, said: ‘The Ponesk and Spireslack sites have now been fully restored by the Banks Mining team ...
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MINING DINOSAURS - UMD
2011-11-2 MINING DINOSAURS . Nonetheless, the pit mines around Muirkirk, Prince George's County, Maryland, continued to be worked. One of the reasons was that the high manganese content of its ore gave it a great tensile strength, allowing it to withstand forces as high as 52,160 pounds in the pig (Singewald, 1911).
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Miscellaneous - Scottish Mining Website
2010-2-3 Miscellaneous, Strikes Court Cases 22 September 1842. Colliers Strike In Ayrshire - We mentioned in our last, that the Sheriff had thought proper, in order to prevent any outbreak among the colliers who have struck work in the neighbourhoods of Kilmarnock, Kilwinning, c,,
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Cronberry The mining village The... - Ayrshire history ...
Cronberry The mining village. The village, in the Parish of Auchinleck, had a public school and in the 1880s a population of 799. Built in the 1860s by the Eglinton Iron Company, Cronberry had seven miner rows set in lines and not streets or squares, the back of one line facing the front of another.
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Mining team reflect on restoration of derelict East ...
2019-5-3 The highly skilled team were able to take the unsightly surface mines and transform them into what we see today – an attractive landscape in keeping with the surrounding Muirkik / Glenbuck valley. Cheryl Hynd, Muirkirk Community Association member says: “The Ponesk and Spireslack sites, have now been fully restored by the Banks Mining team.
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Latest News in Muirkirk in Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland ...
Follow the latest news for Muirkirk in Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland, UK - Local news and information in your area
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Kames, Muirkirk Canmore
2021-5-7 The establishment of a Tarworks to the S of Kames provided the catalyst for the industrial development of Muirkirk (NS62NE 16.01). The foundations of the kilns, still-house and workers' cottages (NS62NE 16.02) can still be seen, and the mining remains which lie immediately to the W of the Tarworks are almost certainly the earliest in the district.
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MINING DINOSAURS - UMD
2011-11-2 MINING DINOSAURS . Nonetheless, the pit mines around Muirkirk, Prince George's County, Maryland, continued to be worked. One of the reasons was that the high manganese content of its ore gave it a great tensile strength, allowing it to withstand forces as high as 52,160 pounds in the pig (Singewald, 1911).
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Double restoration success for Banks Mining Agg-Net
2019-4-30 The highly skilled team were able to transform the previously unsightly surface mines into what can be seen today – an attractive landscape in keeping with the surrounding Muirkirk/Glenbuck valley. Cheryl Hynd, Muirkirk Community Association member, said: ‘The Ponesk and Spireslack sites have now been fully restored by the Banks Mining team ...
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MUIRKIRK IN THE HILLS OF AYRSHIRE - tuugo.co.uk
Muirkirk (Eaglais an t-Sléibh in Gaelic) is a small village in East Ayrshire, southwest Scotland. It was also a Civil Parish. The village is located on the north ...
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David Cooper - Just Farmers
Muirkirk, East Ayrshire. Sheep. SHEEP, SOUTHWEST SCOTLAND: David farms 5,050 acres (2,043 hectares) on the hills of East Ayrshire. ... The farm was in a very poor state – the land still scarred from the mining operation – and David had to quickly develop a system that would work with these difficult conditions. ... Even today there are wet ...
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TALES FROM TODAY - UMD
2011-11-2 TALES FROM TODAY . Arthur Bibbins was struck by a car on a Baltimore street in 1936. He died a day later (Anonymous, 1936). By this time, of course, all iron mining was a thing of the past, although some of the pits like those around Muirkirk were kept open as brick clay and paint pigment mines, even to the present day. ...
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Miscellaneous - Scottish Mining Website
2010-2-3 Miscellaneous, Strikes Court Cases 22 September 1842. Colliers Strike In Ayrshire - We mentioned in our last, that the Sheriff had thought proper, in order to prevent any outbreak among the colliers who have struck work in the neighbourhoods of Kilmarnock, Kilwinning, c,,
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Cronberry The mining village The... - Ayrshire history ...
Cronberry The mining village. The village, in the Parish of Auchinleck, had a public school and in the 1880s a population of 799. Built in the 1860s by the Eglinton Iron Company, Cronberry had seven miner rows set in lines and not streets or squares, the back of one line facing the front of another.
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