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Blairdardie Brick & Tile Works (clay pit) Forth and Clyde Canal (Great Western Road Culvert Outfall) Blairdardie No.5 Pit Forth and Clyde Canal (site of Cloberhill Opening Bridge) Garscadden Burn (Paladin Avenue Culvert Inlet) Garscadden Burn (Great Western Road Culvert Outfall) Garscadden Burn (Paladin Avenue Culvert Inlet) Garscadden Burn (Great Western Road Culvert Inlet) Garscadden Burn (Paladin Avenue Culvert Outfall) Blairdardie No.2 Pit Garscadden Burn (Clarion Road Culvert Inlet) Garscadden Burn (Archerhill Road Culvert Outfall) Garscadden Burn (Archerhill Road Culvert Inlet) Blairdardie No.3 Pit
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Keal Avenue, Blairdardie, Old Drumchapel, City of Glasgow (Dumbartonshire).
| NGR: | NS 52576 69812 |
| WGS84: | 55.89878, -4.35938 |
| Length: | Not recorded |
| Vert. Range: | 113 m |
| Altitude: | 22 m |
| Geology: | Upper Possil Ironstone, Possil Main Coal |
| Tags: | Mine, Shaft, ManMade, Archaeo, Lost |
| Registry: | second |
Mine (Coal & Ironstone), 19th c.
Initially a coal pit situated on the N bank of the Forth & Clyde Canal, as shown on the OS 6" map of 1864. The mine later also extracted blackband ironstone, probably from c.1870 to the 1880s under new ownership of Merry & Cunninghame & later William Dixon. Shaft sunk to Possil Main Coal, site of which is now occupied by grassland alongside flats of Keal Ave. See mine plan in refs.
Alternative Names: Blairdardie Colliery
Notes: 1853 Geol. Survey map states "No.1 Blairdardie U.P.I. at 46 fms, P.M. at 62 fms" [84m & 113m].
Colliery owners: Robertson & Harvie (1854-1860), Dr Robertson (1865-1866), James Robertson (1869), Merry & Cunninghame (1870-1880), W.S. Dixon & Co. (1885).
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