Deans No.4 mine

Parish:

Bathgate, Linlithgowshire

Local authority:

West Lothian

Seams worked:

Dunnet Shale

Opened:

c.1907

Closed:

1938

Current status of site:

Vacant space within industrial estate

Regional overview:

Mines in the Deans area

Inclined adit

Serving Deans Crude Oil Works

One of three new mines opened c.1907 by the Pumpherston Oil Company to serve the reconstructed Deans Crude Oil Works.

Location & workings at Deans No.4 mine

Detailed maps

Deans No.4 Mine - 25" OS map c.1896, courtesy National Library of Scotland

25" OS map c.1896, prior to development of the mine

Deans No.4 Mine - 25" OS map c.1916, courtesy National Library of Scotland

25" OS map c.1916, showing the mine in operation. A combination of two map sheets, one of which was censored for security purposes

Deans No.4 Mine - 25" OS map c.1922, courtesy National Library of Scotland

6" OS map c.1922, showing the mine in operation

Deans No.4 Mine - Aerial, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Aerial image. c.2005

Drawings

Sketch plan of workings from Deans No. 4, 6 & 7 Mines (LVSAV 1991.044).

Seam sections from mine abandonment plan.

Production statistics from 1920.

From "Sections of Shale Seams", a notebook by Robert Crichton. BP Archive 183734

Archive images

Livingston Development Corporation image of land renewal works at Deans during the 1980's. It seems to show the brick-lined adit of Deans No. 4, looking east.

An image from the same source as (left) showing another brick-lined adit.

Recent images

Approximate site of Deans No. 4 Mine. Looking east. March 2012.

Culvert beneath the Edinburgh-Bathgate railway, previously the route of the tramway linking No. 3 and No. 4 Mines. Looking south. March 2012.