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Barbauchlaw No.9 pit

Alternative names:
McLagan's pit. Armadale No.9 pit
Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
1860's ?
Closed:
pre 1895
Current status of site:
Gardens behind housing on South St.

A pit in the lands of Barbauchlaw.

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    Robert Martin.... was a most studious young man with a thoroughly go ahead nature, and before obtaining his mining manager's certificate was appointed manager of No. 9 Pit, Barbauchlaw, opposite where the model lodging-house now stands in South Street, when the disused ironstone pit was taken over by the Uphall Oil Company a coal pit, and was really the first coal mine manager in the district. Linlithgowshire Gazette, 8th September 1916