This post is part of a series called Somerset Coal Miners
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- High Littleton
- Paulton
- Midsomer Norton – High Street
- Midsomer Norton
- Midsomer Norton Station
- Haydon
- Radstock
- Chilcompton
- Westfield
- Camerton
- Clandown
- Coleford – Coal Barton
- Coleford – Mackintosh
- Holcombe
- Old Mills
- Writhlington
- Timsbury
- Somerset Coal Mining – History!
- Paulton Basin
- Farrington Gurney
- Tunley
- Westfield Old Pit Road
- Newton St Loe
- Clandown
- Brandy Bottom
About This Location:
- Mackintosh shafts were sunk and opened in 1867
- The shaft was connected underground to Newbury by a small airway.
- Macintosh coal was carried on a narrow tramway around 2ft 4 down to Newbury where it was screened and loaded onto Railway.
- On Mach 30th 1895 Macintosh ceased coal mining a suspension lasting 5 years until trade had improved
- In April 1912 the ownership had changed to a Welsh Company
- In December 1919 there was a bad accident. The winding rope broke.
- In 1920 the pit was producing 50,000 tones of Coal each year but was still in financial difficulty
- The put closed on the August bank holiday in 1927
About Somerset Coal:
We believe that Somerset coal was first discovered by the Romans. They were in the West Country 43AD, and there are references to it being used at the Temple of Minerva in Aqua Sulis (Bath). The coal used was probably found in coal outcrops around Stratton-on-the-Fosse, and transported along the Roman road – the Fosseway – for use in Bath.
Early coal workings, from coal outcrops, were largely in the Nettlebridge Valley, around Stratton-on-the-Fosse and Coleford, and to the North of the Coalfield, around High Littleton. It is estimated that output in 1500 was estimated about 10,000 tons a year, and that this had increased 10-fold by the late 1600s…
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