Fauldhouse No.8 pit

An ironstone, and subsequently a coal pit in the lands of Benthead. Workings in the Slatyband ironstone (in association with Fauldhouse No.9) were abandoned in the 1878

• The 1883 List of Mines records Fauldhouse No.8, owned by William Dixon Ltd. manager Thomas Nimmo, working the Shotts Ball coal by the longwall method, employing 9 on the surface and 61 underground. The downcast shaft was 15.5' x 7' and 330 ft deep, the upcast was 6.5' x 7' and 330 feet deep. It was a non-fiery mine ventilated by furnace.
• The 1885 List of Mines records Fauldhouse No.8, owned by William Dixon Ltd. manager Thomas Nimmo, working the Shotts Ball coal by the longwall method, employing 11 on the surface and 96 underground. The downcast shaft was 15 ½ ' x 7' and 330 ft deep, the upcast was 6 ½ x 7' and 330 feet deep. It was a non-fiery mine ventilated by furnace.

FAULDHOUSE - Pit Accident – Last Friday while James Scott senr., residing at Drybridge, Fauldhouse was engaged in his usual work in Dixon’s Pit No 8., when he met with a severe accident. It appears that he was proping the roof when a large stone fell and striking him broke his shoulder blade seriously, and also injured him about the head.

West Lothian Courier, 22nd August 1885