Polmaise Past and Present 

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You can see collection items online, and hundreds more digital resources may be available if you register. Anyone can get a library card to consult material in our reading rooms. - http://www.nls.uk/

Welcome to National Mining Museum Scotland, a 5 Star visitor attraction and winner of the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions "Best Visitor Experience" Award in 2009 and 2013.

The museum provides a great day out for all ages! We're based at one of the finest surviving examples of a Victorian colliery in Europe, the Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, just nine miles south of Edinburgh. - http://nationalminingmuseum.com/

Fact sheet on the Polmaise Estate collieries. Document courteousy of The Smith Art Gallery.

The miners worked hard and played hard. Life in the mining communities had a

distinctive cultural richness, involving pipe bands, football, athletics, dancing and dog

racing, amongst other things.

Fact sheet on campaigning for improved working conditions. Document courteousy of The Smith Art Gallery.

Coal mining was a hard, dangerous and dirty occupation which was life – limiting and

always bad for the health of the miner.

With the move to a monetarised and de-industrialised economy, the Conservative

government decided to destroy the National Union of Mineworkers and the mining

industry both. Document courteousy of The Smith Art Gallery.

Six historic battles which changed the course of Scottish history took place in and around
Stirling. They were relatively brief. Document courteousy of The Smith Art Gallery.

A fact sheet on Pomaise men fighting for their jobs and the survival of their industry. Document courteousy of The Smith Art Gallery.

In 1984 – 5, the community was behind the cause of the striking miners in Stirling, but politically

powerless to prevent the closure of Polmaise Colliery in 1987 and the dismantling of the pit

head, undertaken in haste.

Sunday Mail Article, March 2, 2014

30 years on Coal Strike Comrades Tell How They Went Underground To Save Pit (Page 1)

Sunday Mail Article, March 2, 2014

30 years on Coal Strike Comrades Tell How They Went Underground To Save Pit (Page 2)

Stirlingshire Sheet 1899 Ordnance Survey Map (includes: Alloa; St Ninians)