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Fallside Quarry [Mine]

West Wood, Fallside, Uddingston, Lanarkshire.

Mine (Fireclay), Quarry (Sandstone & Fireclay), c.1900.

A ca. 20m-long drift mine was driven into a 6ft-thick red fireclay from Fallside Quarry where a brickworks had been established. The short-lived mine was abandoned by 1901; see abandonment plan (in refs). The quarry site is now occupied by woodland.

As shown on the 25" OS map of 1898, additional sandstone/clay quarries (& later a brickworks) were located c. 400m further E at Bell's Quarry & Bothwell Park, now infilled on either side of the Edinbugh & Glasgow Railway around [NS 713 604]. The site of Bothwell Park Quarry is now an area known as the "Old Mine nature Park" - it is possible that additional (now-buried) quarry mines were located here, although the name may relate to Bothwell Park Colliery that had its No.1 & No.2 Pits located towards the SE end of the reserve at [NS 717 598].

Coal pits (No.1 & No.2) of Viewpark Colliery (now replaced by an industrial yard) were located c. 300m W of Fallside Quarry at [NS 707 607].

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: The initial Fallside Quarry workings are depicted on the 25" OS map of 1898 (surveyed 1897). Given coordinates are for the location of the (infilled?) mine mouth.

"This company, which has secured Bailie Mickel of Linlithgow, as one of its directors, has been formed to acquire the Bothwell Park Freestone Quarry at Fallside, near Uddingston. The quarry has been carried on on behalf of the Executors of the late James King of Motherwell, by his son, Mr James King, who will join the Board as Managing Director. It is proposed to lay down a brickmaking plant in connection with the quarry, and to equip the latter with modern stone dressing machinery, so that the works will enjoy every facility for carrying on an extensive trade. The quality of the stone has been well proved by past experience and there seems to be an abundance of it, while below the rock there has been discovered a valuable bed of terra-cotta clay which has given the very best results. There is also an abundance of blue clay bare, the working of which will lessen the cost of working the quarry." [West Lothian Courier, 07/05/1898]