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Drumbow Oil Works

Former parish and county:
Parish of New Monkland, Lanarkshire
Local authority:
North Lanarkshire
Ownership:
James Gemmell
Opened:
Perhaps built c. 1871
Closed:
Perhaps demolished c.1883
Current status of site:
Uncertain, reverted to moorland
Regional overview:
Oil works in North Lanarkshire

Not mentioned by Redwood.

Valuation rolls suggest an oil works might have been in operation 1871-1878 and remained unused until 1882. Subsequent entries seem likely to be irrelevant references to mineral rights. OS maps show a number of pits associated with Drumbow Colliery, but provide no clue as to the possible location of an oil works.

Below: Rateable value entries between 1871 and 1934. It is assumed that the name "Drumbrow" is a transcription error and should read "Drumbow".

  • Rateable value by year
      • Date Rateable Value Owner Occupier Notes
      1871-78 £60 James Gemmell (Coalmaster) James Gemmell (Coalmaster)
      1879 £25 James Gemmell James Gemmell 8 East High Street, Airdrie
      1880-82 £25 James Gemmell James Gemmell
      1883 £25 James Gemmell James Gemmell Empty
      £1324 James Gemmell James Gemmell Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1884-86 £25 James Gemmell James Gemmell Empty
      1887 £1082 James Gemmell James Gemmell Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1888 £882 James Gemmell James Gemmell
      1889 £1272 James Gemmell James Gemmell
      1890 £1222 James Gemmell James Gemmell
      1891 £993 James Gemmell James Gemmell
      1892 £828 James Gemmell James Gemmell
      1893 £855 James Gemmell James Gemmell
      1894 £696 James Gemmell James Gemmell
      1895 £484.9.2 J Gemmell J Gemmell 135 Buchanan Street, Glasgow
      1896 £636.12.7 J Gemmell J Gemmell
      1897 £498.14.1 J Gemmell J Gemmell
      1898 £512 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company
      1899 £476 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company For John Rankine 40 St Enoch Square, Glasgow
      1900 £404.2.8 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1901 £597.8 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1902 £729.98 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1903 £835 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1904 £784 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company John Pollock 40 St Enoch Square, Glasgow
      1905 £616 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company
      1906 £620 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1907 £711 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1908 £686 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company John Pollock 124 St Vincent Street, Glasgow
      1909 £735 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1910 £662 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1911 £609 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1912 £530 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1913 £543.5.9 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1914 £407.7.1 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1915 £318.18 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1916 £75 Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Drumbrow & Longrigg
      1917 No entry Dungavel Coal Company Dungavel Coal Company Minerals at Longriggend, Lochend, Longrigg, Drumbrow & Auchengray
      £1000 Wm Black Rankine James. Nimmo & Company Ltd Per. James R Barton, 3 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh Minerals at Longriggend, Lochend, Longrigg, Drumbrow & Auchengray
      1925 £1000 Wm Black Rankine James. Nimmo & Company Ltd Per. James R Barton, 3 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh Minerals at Longriggend, Lochend, Longrigg, Drumbrow & Auchengray
      1926 £600 Wm Black Rankine James. Nimmo & Company Ltd Per. James R Barton, 3 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh Minerals at Longriggend, Lochend, Longrigg, Drumbrow & Auchengray
      1927 £600 Wm Black Rankine James. Nimmo & Company Ltd Per. James R Barton, 3 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh
      1928 £600 James Nimmo & Company Ltd James Nimmo & Company Ltd 21 Bothwell Street, Glasgow
      1929 Nil on Appeal James Nimmo & Company Ltd James Nimmo & Company Ltd
      1930 No entry James Nimmo & Company Ltd James Nimmo & Company Ltd
      1931 £4.15 James Nimmo & Company Ltd James Nimmo & Company Ltd
      1932 £4.15 James Nimmo & Company Ltd James Nimmo & Company Ltd
      1933 £20.15 James Nimmo & Company Ltd James Nimmo & Company Ltd
      1934 £2.5
      NO FURTHER ENTRIES
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