Owners: Lassodie Coal Co.
The Lassodie No. 6 Pit was probably sunk in the mid-late 1860s and appears to have worked into the 1880s. Exact dates are not known at this stage for this pit which was located just over ½ mile to the west of Lassodie Mains, and ¼ mile south of Braehead.
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| Source Date of Information (Owner) |
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| Manager / Under-Manager / Men underground / Men above ground / Coal seams worked / Shaft Details |
| 1873 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| J. Brownlie / ------------ / --- / --- / Splint / D'cast 420 ft. : U'cast 180 ft. |
| 1874 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| J. Brownlie / ------------ / 89 / 23 / Splint / D'cast 420 ft. : U'cast 180 ft. |
| 1875 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| J. Brownlie / ------------ / 74 / 23 / Splint / D'cast 420 ft. : U'cast 270 ft. |
| 1876 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| J. Brownlie / ------------ / 54 / 22 / 5 Feet / D'cast 420 ft. : U'cast 270 ft. |
| 1877 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| J. Brownlie / ------------ / 37 / 15 / 5 Feet; Splint / D'cast 420 ft. : U'cast 270 ft. |
| 1878 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| J. Brownlie / ------------ / 45 / 15 / 5 Feet; Splint / D'cast 420 ft. : U'cast 270 ft. |
| 1879 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| William Andrew / ------------ / 27 / 14 / 3 Feet / D'cast 180 ft. : U'cast 180 ft. |
| 1880 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| William Andrew / ------------ / 28 / 12 / 8 Feet / D'cast 27 ft. : U'cast 180 ft. |
| 1881 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| William Andrew / ------------ / 28 / 13 / 8 Feet / D'cast 27 ft. : U'cast 180 ft. |
| 1882 (Lassodie Coal Co.) |
| William Andrew / ------------ / 17 / 10 / Eight Feet / D'cast 27 ft. : U'cast 180 ft. |
| See also Lassodie Colliery entry CENTRAL FIFE INDEX |
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Information on coal seams worked at, or near, Lassodie No. 6 Pit
(based on a report from 1934)
In the west, Nos. 6 and 7 Pits, Lassodie, were sunk in the
centre of a syncline in which the highest beds belonged to
the Main group of coals.
The Mynheer Coal was mainly a bright, hard, steam coal but
it was somewhat thin at Lassodie, having its best development
here in the west of the northern basin of the Lassodie
coalfield, in a small syncline around the No. 6 Pit, where it
reached 3 ft. 3 in. thick.
The Glassee Coal was of fair quality and was usually a thick
seam. Formerly it was not recognised as the Glassee Coal of
Dunfermline but was locally referred to as Eight Foot
Coal. In the west at No. 6 Pit, and in a surface mine
south of the pit, it measured 6 ft. 4 in. with a splint band
in the centre.
| Plans of Abandoned Seams for Lassodie No. 6 | Pits or Mines designated in Plans |
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| COAL; Four Feet; Five Feet; Splint (1870) | Lassodie Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 |
| COAL; Eight Feet (1883); Mynheer or Three Feet (1888) | Lassodie Nos. 2, 6, 7 |
| COAL; Seam unnamed (no date) | Lassodie No. 6 |
| COAL;
Two Feet (December 1930); Five Feet (March 1931); Eight
Feet;
Mynheer; Dunfermline Splint (May 1931); Cairncubie; Swallowdrum (May 1931); Six Feet; Upper Eight Feet (May 1931) |
Lassodie Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 |
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"Dunfermline Saturday Press"
23 March, 1872
ACCIDENT
On Monday morning, while a man named James Wood was employed at the face in No. 6 Pit, Lassodie Colliery, a lump of coal, weighing about three cwt., fell from the roof and struck him in such a manner that he sustained compound fracture of the collar bone of his right shoulder. Wood was attended to by Dr. Morris, Dunfermline.
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"Dunfermline Saturday Press"
12 October, 1878
FATAL PIT ACCIDENT
About twelve o'clock on Thursday night, a miner named Robert Bower, was engaged at brushing in No. 6 Pit, Lassodie, when a large quantity of blae came away and fell upon him. The accident being noticed by a number of workmen, he was soon extricated and conveyed home, where he died in about an hour and a-half afterwards. Deceased leaves a widow and large family.
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"The Scotsman"
12 October, 1878
DUNFERMLINE - FATAL ACCIDENT. - Yesterday a man named Bowyer, a brusher, met his death while employed in a pit at Lassodie Colliery, near Dunfermline, by a mass of "blae" having fallen upon him from the roof. The deceased was 32 years of age, and has left a widow and family.
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