Balbardie No.4 pit

A pit in the lands of Balbardie. Workings were linked to those of Balbardie No.5 (Boghead) pit.

The 1883 List of Mines records Balbardie No.4 Bog pit as owned by Henry Walker, manager James McPhail, working the Balbardie Coal by the stoop and room method, employing 5 on the surface and 13 underground, with downcast shaft measuring 12' x 7 and 132 feet deep' and an upcast measuring 14' x 4' and 90 ft deep. It was a non-fiery mine.

The 1884 List of Mines records Balbardie No.4 (Bog) pit as owned by Henry Walker, manager James McPhail, working the Balbardie Coal 5½' by the stoop & room method, with an upcast shaft 14' x 4' and 90ft deep. It was a non-fiery mine ventilated by furnace

The 1885 List of Mines records Balbardie No.4 (Bog) pit as owned by Henry Walker, manager James McPhail, working the Balbardie Coal 5½' by the stoop & room method, with an upcast shaft 14' x 5' and 90ft deep. It was a non-fiery mine ventilated by furnace

A mine will be driven from the present pit at Bog, on the Balbardie estate, to form a connection with the new pit (Boghead), and, in addition the mineral thus wrought out, the same seam at Standhill will in the course of time be worked from the same shafts.

Falkirk Herald, 28th February 1880

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The late Henry Walker sank a pit south of the station, and the men working came on the old workings. The water entered the new workings from the old, and the result was that some ot the men lost their graith.

Linlithgowshire Gazette, 11th January 1901

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When the Messrs Walker came' into possession, the Balbardie mine and No.1 pit were working and another was then sunk on the south side of the estate. The Bog pit, it was called, was worked for ten or twelve years after which was abandoned.

Linlithgowshire Gazette, 14th March 1902, See full reference