Straiton No.1 & 2 mines

Former parish and county:

Parish of Liberton, Edinburghshire

Local authority:

City of Edinburgh

Ownership:

Clippens Oil Co. Ltd. (1878)

Clippens Oil Co. Ltd. (1893)

Seams worked:

Broxburn Shale, Dunnet Shale

Closed:

Pre-1894?

Current status of site:

Returned to agriculture

Regional overview:

Mines in the Straiton area

Inclined adit

Serving Pentland Paraffin Oil Works

Two small mines, No. 1 to the Broxburn Shale, No. 2 to the Fells? Shale, identified on BGS plan 972. Surfacing close to Oakbank Cottages, these may have been known as Oakbank No. 1 & No. 2 Mines.

See Pentland No. 1 & No. 2 Mines for an overview of shale mining in the Straiton area.

Shale-field: Burdiehouse and Straiton shale-fields.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1894, showing no trace of surface features.

Location & workings at Straiton No.1 & 2 mines

Detailed maps

Straiton No.1 & 2 Mines - 25" OS map c.1894, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.1 & 2 Mines - 25" OS map c.1907, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.1 & 2 Mines - 1:2,500 OS map c.1955, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.1 & 2 Mines - Aerial, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Drawings

Section of mining plan showing mine entrances [in the centre of the image]. (British Geological Survey LSP 972 (15231).

Recent images

View from site of Oakbank Cottages towards Eldin Oil Works. The site of No. 1 Mine is in the centre of this image. Looking south east. July 2012.

Collapsed barn on the site of Oakbank Cottages. The site of No. 2 Mine is close to the hedge in the background. Looking south. July 2012.

External references

Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. 5913, showing workings in the Dunnet, Broxburn and Fells Shales from Straiton No. 3, 4, 7, 8; Mortonhall No. 9, 10, Pentland No. 1 , 2 and Oakbank, abandoned in 1900.