... e Quarry. The church and California Old Rows were built from sand stones hewn from the quarry. At th e time of the Redding Pit disaster, the water from the hill was carried across the quarry on a wooden viaduct, as the quarry filled with water and ultimately ...

... apprenticeship as a mining engineer with an Edinburgh firm, and he was area manager of a group of mines in the Redding area prior to the Redding pit disaster. In 1924 he joined the firm of Arcfiibald Russell, Ltd., and remained with them till he retired in 1941 ...

... surface worker and latterly check weighman, retiring only a few years ago. He formed one of the rescue party at the Redding Pit Disaster in 1923. During the 192fi strike he was District Secretary for the Stirlingshire Miners’ Union and was instrumental ...

... *■ There was a feeling in Bo’ness that many col- lections have been held for as worthy a cause as this (he gave the Redding Pit Disaster Fund as an instance) and wc know that a lot of money was still lying dormant in some of those funds and because of ...

... 10 Langton Road. Laurieston. He was 75 years of age. Until his death, Mr Smith was trustee of the Relief Fund of the Redding Pit Disaster. A native of Maddiston, Mr Smith lived at South Craigs. Polmont, for many years before removing to Westquarter, and ...

... trades went to work in Kingshill Colliery as a fireman, and while there was one of the rescue party in the Redding Pit disaster. He left the pits in 1924 and started on his own in business as a motor engineer and contractor in Stewarton Street, remaining ...

... THOMSON.—In loving memory of our dear father. David Thomson, and our dear brother. Laurence, who lost their lives in the Redding Pit disaster on 25th September. 1923; also our dearly beloved mother, Agnes Munnoch who died on 3rd October 1954. Sheltered by the ...

... who had formed the School Dramatic Society and at the time of the Redding pit disaster, organised dramatic evenings for the benefit of those who suffered as a result of the disaster. He also remembered Mr James Fyfe, conductor of the Falkirk Select Choir ...

... the horrors and vexations of two world wars: it told of grief and tragedy associated with two major disasters in our own locality the Redding Pit disaster and the Castlecary rail crash. As its cylinders rotated it had told of good times and bad times in ...

... the drama group attached to Larbert Old Parish Church. At one period he raised over ftoo. by such efforts, aid of the Redding Pit Disaster Fund. Mr Troup had a pleasing tenor voice and encouraged his scholars also in choral work, several of his school choirs ...

... DISASTER PIT Miner Tells Inquiry `I Went Home Worried' who worked on the morning shift on the day of the disaster at Knockshinnock Castle Colliery, New Cumnock, said at the public inquiry at Ayr to-day that there was a I considerable increase in the amount ...

... Kelty Pit Disaster Fund A de{)artmemal subseription at Burntisland Shipyard has realised the sum of £llB 0/3 for the dependents of miners killeq in the Lindsay Pit disaster, *he detached list is appended:— Piaters- “. £l3 18 0 Staff 1017 9 Burners’ ...