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Bothwellhaugh Village

Strathclyde, South Lanarkshire

Bothwellhaugh forms part of the Strathclyde Country Park, next to the towns of Motherwell and Hamilton in Lanarkshire. For eight decades from 1884 until the 1960s the Hamilton Palace Colliery operated by the Bent Colliery Company produced coal. A village was developed to provide accommodation for the staff at the Hamilton Palace colliery, both the colliery and village disappeared in the 1960s.

Bothwellhaugh
View from the East 

Bothwellhaugh
View from West

Bothwellhaugh
East Facing Plaque

Bothwellhaugh
West Facing Plaque

Wheel

Watson No3 Motherwell

Watson
Corner of Watsonville Park and Barrie Street (off A721), Motherwell, North Lanarkshire

Wheel

The Miners Of The Quarter Colliery, Quarter Church, South Lanarkshire

26 April 1895 - 13 men were killed by an explosion

Quarter-Church

  • John Busby, 39, contractor, married
  • Patrick Carr, 26, collier, married
  • John Comrie, 25, collier, married
  • Peter Connaway, 26, collier, married (brother-in-law of Dunnion brothers)
  • Bernard Dunnion, 29, collier, single
  • Patrick Dunnion, 35, collier, married (Bernard & Patrick Dunnion were brothers)
  • John Herron, 26, collier, single
  • Henry McGovern, 32, collier, married
  • John McGovern, 35, collier, single (John and Henry McGovern were brothers)
  • John McMillan, 32, collier, married
  • Robert Mitchell, 42, collier, single
  • Peter Tully, 26, collier, married
  • John Nicol or Trevorrow, 44, collier, married (The mine inspectors report and newspapers list a John Nicol but no death by this name is registered)
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