Private partnership (1835–1898), Limited company (1898–1948)
Industry
Mining
Founded
1835
Founder
William Mitchell, John Moubray, John Craich, David Ramsay
Defunct
1948 (nationalized)
Area served
Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire, Fife, Perthshire
Key people
Andrew Mitchell, Alexander Mitchell
Products
Coal, Ironstone
The Alloa Coal Company was founded in 1835 as a partnership between William Mitchell, John Moubray, John Craich, and David Ramsay. The partners obtained a lease to mine coal and ironstone on the lands of the Earl of Mar in Clackmannanshire. In the 1840s, Alloa coal was exported to Canada by the Ben Line in which Mitchell was a partner; the ships returned with Canadian timber.
The partnership was later managed by William Mitchell's sons Andrew and Alexander and had pits in Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire, Fife and Perthshire. The partnership became a limited company in 1898, and was nationalised by the British Government in 1948.
Mines and pits operated by the Alloa Coal Company Ltd. included Zetland [1] and Craigrie Collieries [2] near Clackmannan, Devon Colliery [3] and Meta Colliery,[4] near Fishcross, King o'Muirs Colliery near Tullibody,[5] Tillicoultry Colliery.[6] at Devonside, and Dollar Colliery [7] (West Pitgober Mine) east of Dollar village. Dollar Mine, as it was known under National Coal Board management, was the last survivor, continuing to supply coal by rail to Kincardine Power Station until 1973.
Delivery Note for Craigrie Best
Bannockburn Colliery at Cowie (Stirlingshire) [8] lay outside the Company's Clackmannanshire roots, and was formerly owned by Carron Company (ironworkers), presumably for assuring a supply of coking coal for their cupolas at Carron Works near Falkirk, although the mine also produced house coal and steam coal. This colliery had a later lease of life as a drift mine between 1953 and 1964.
Before the advent of the railways, coal was transported from various of the Clackmannanshire mines to the Port and Glassworks in Alloa by the Wagon Way. Constructed by the Erskines of Mar in 1768, the Wagon Way was an early attempt at railway engineering using horse-drawn wagons running on wooden rails, later replaced by Swedish iron in 1785.
^"Zetland Colliery | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
^"Craigrie Colliery | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
^"Devon Colliery | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
^"Meta Colliery | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
^"King O' Muirs No. 1 Colliery | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
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130 countries. John Jameson (1740 – 1823) was originally a lawyer from Alloa in Scotland before he founded his eponymous distillery in Dublin in 1780...
steam-powered machine for raising coal from the pit face. In 1825 he and Stevenson drew up plans for the improvement of Alloa dock, which included the creation...
20th-century Arts and Crafts style mansion, located on Tullibody Road, Alloa, Scotland. It was owned and used as a venue for events but has now been...
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the Firth of Forth, between Alloa and Dunfermline. It was opened in two stages by the North British Railway: from Alloa to Kincardine in 1893, and the...
route, the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine rail link, at the mouth of the river Forth was reopened in 2008, and was also used to deliver coal. The chimney was...
his employees, Cox sold his marine salvaging business to the Alloa Shipbreaking Company in 1932. He remained a consultant to the British Admiralty throughout...
by the Erskines of Mar in Alloa, to carry coal from the Clackmannanshire coalfields of central Scotland to the Port of Alloa. Initially using wooden rails...
respectively. The former mining village of Coalsnaughton lies just south, whilst Alloa lies 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest. The "hill" referred to in the first...
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Private Railway and the Estate's interest was transferred to the Wemyss CoalCompany. These terms have been used interchangeably by authors. The collieries...
the West Midlands, Lemington Glass Works west of Newcastle upon Tyne and Alloa in Scotland. Threatened with demolition in the 1960s, it has been preserved...
in coal. When the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was taken over, the NBR also got hold of the Stirling to Dunfermline line, passing through Alloa, and...
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