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WEST SCOTLAND
REPORT by THOMAS TANCRED, ESQ., on the Employment of Children and Persons in Collieries and Iron Works in the West of Scotland, and on the State, Condition, and Treatment of such Children and Young Persons.
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Airdrie coal and iron-field.
Seams of coal and ironstone.
Seams of Coal in the Lanarkshire Basin
Hot blast.
Moral less satisfactory than economical results.
LIST of IRON WORKS in the WEST of SCOTLAND, specifying the time elapsed since their Establishment the Names of the Works, the Names of the Owners, the Furnaces in Blast, and those out of Blast or Building, up to May, 1841.
Amount of produce.
Condition of population.
Population at Coatbridge.
Chapel Hall iron-works.
Plan for raising school fees.
Insufficient school room.
Pearston colliery.
Kilmarnock collieries.
Other mineral fields in the West Scotland, Dumbartonshire, Renfrewshire.
Johnstone coal-field.
Hurlet coal-field.
Ayrshire.
I - AGE AND NUMBER.
Colliers' rules.
TABLE compiled from RETURNS made from some COLLIERIES and IRONSTONE MINES in the WEST of SCOTLAND, COAL MINES.
II - HOURS OF WORK.
No.1 - STANDING RULES and REGULATIONS by which all COLLIERS and others employed at GOVAN COLLIERY by WILLIAM DIXON, shall be, and by their acceptance of work are, bound to adhere to and perform.
No. 2 - CONTRACT for WORKERS at GATEHEAD COLLIERY, KILMARNOCK.
No.3 - CONTRACT for WORKERS at the DUKE OF PORTLAND'S COLLIERIES, KILMARNOCK.
No.4 - REGULATIONS to be observed at AYR COLLIERY, and to which every man or boy employed at it, shall be understood to be bound, whether he has signed them or not.
Iron works.
Three classes of foundries.
Causes of over-hours.
Ill effect of over-hours.
III - MEALS.
IV - NATURE OF EMPLOYMENT.
Modes of working the coal.
Description of the collier's employment.
Ironstone miners.
Children employed above ground.
Kinds of steam engines used at the Scotch collieries.
Pig-mou1ding.
Foundries.
Riveters.
Chainmakers.
V - STATE OF THE PLACE OF WORK
VI - ACCIDENTS.
Ventilating fan.
Inquests on sudden deaths in Scotland.
1. - To GEORGE SALMON, Esq., Procurator Fiscal for Lanarkshire, &c.
2. - To THOMAS TANCRED, Esq., Sub-Commissioner, &c.
3. - To THOMAS TANCRED, Esq.
4. - PROCURATOR-FISCAL of Renfrewshire to T. TANCRED, Esq.
VII - HOLIDAYS.
VIII - HIRING AND WAGES.
SCHEDULE to be filled up in the handwriting of boys applying for work at the Globe Foundry.
Truck System.
Modes of evading the Truck Act.
Profits of stores.
Present the existence of a middle-class.
Arrestment of wages.
REMARKS ON THE LAW OF ARRESTMENT OF WORKERS WAGES.
IX - TREATMENT AND CARE.
X - PHYSICAL CONDITION
XI - MORAL CONDITION.
Illustrations evil caused by the population outgrowing the means of religious instruction.
Barony parish, Glasgow.
Local wealth arising from an increase of population should be chargeable with the
religious instruction of that population.
Further illustrations.
Abbey parish, Paisley.
Parish of Neilston.
STATE of NEILSTON PARISH in the Two Years 1790 and 1837, showing its progress in less than Fifty Years.
Stevenston parish.
Mining district of South Wales.
Parochial institution must be rendered capable of expanding co-extensively with the increase of population in each locality.
XII - COMPARATIVE CONDITION.
EVIDENCE COLLECTED BY THOMAS TANCRED, ESQ.
COLLIERIES, IRONWORKS, FOUNDRIES, AND CHAINWORKS, IN THE WEST OF SCOTLAND.
No.1. February 11. James Scott, aged 18
BRIDEWELL, GLASGOW.
No.2 February 12. Peter Neilson, aged 18, native of Ireland
GOVAN IRON WORKS.
No.3. March 31. Mr. James Allan, manager of the Govan Colliery since 1822, and connected with the works 26 years
GOVAN COLLIERY (visited personally.)
No.4. April 1. Robert Ferguson, collier, adult, examined in the colliery at work
No.5. April 1. Another collier
No.6. April 1. Francis Conery, aged 9
No.7. April 1. --- Buchanan, Esq., Main-street, Gorbals
CLYDE IRON WORKS (visited personally)
No.8. March 30. James Dunlop, Esq.
No.9. April 5. Dr. Adams
KNIGHTSWOOD COLLIERY, DUMBARTONSHIRE (visited personally.)
No.10. April 3. James Macleod, pit-head man at the Knightswood Colliery
No.11. April 5. Robert Baird, Esq., 259, Argyll Street, partner in the Gartsherrie Iron Works and Collieries in the Airdrie District
GARTSHERRIE COLLIERY (visited personally.)
No.12. April 12. James Chalmers, collier, working with his two sons and 13 years old, in the Open-cast Pit, Gartsherrie
No.13. April 13. Janet. Snedden, aged 9.
No.14. --- Cameron.
No.15. April 13. George Lindsay.
No.16. April 12. Mr. M'Arthur.
ROCHSOLLOCH IRON-STONE PITS. (visited personally).
No.17. April 13. William Lochland.
No.18 Joseph Smith, agent.
DUNDYVAN IRON-WORKS (visited personally).
No.19. April 13. William Miller.
AIRDRIE.
No.20. April 13. Rev.. Daniel Callaghan, Roman Catholic priest at Airdrie.
No.21. April 14. Rev. William Jackson, minister of the West-quo sacra parish, Airdrie.
MONKLAND IRON COMPANY'S WORKS (visited personally).
No.22. April 14. Mr. Kirkland, manager and clerk of the store for the Monkland Iron Company, Calder Bank.
SHOTT'S IRON-STONE PIT - WATER ENGINE PIT
No.23 April 16. Johnny Miller, aged 10
No.24. April 16. William Brownlee, Esq., surgeon to the Shotts Pits and Collieries
SHOTTS MANSE.
No.25 April 16. Rev. Walter Colvin, minister of Shotts parish
HURLET COLLIERY
No.26. April 22. Peter Boag, bottom-man of the Haugh Pit, Hurlet, Mr. Wilson's
No.27. Patrick Kinnon, a drawer, aged 9
THORNHILL HOUSE, NEAR PAISLEY.
No.28 April 23. Campbell Snodgrass, Esq., lessee of Elderske and Craig en-feoch Collieries, justice of the peace, &c.
IRVINE.
No.29 May 3. The Rev. Andrew Glen, missionary, Ecentiate of the Scottish Church
STEVENSTON COLLIERY, AYRSHIRE
No.30. May 2. John Ballantine, manager of Stevenston Colliery, in the Parish of that name
GATEHEAD COLLIERY, KILMARNOCK
No.31 May 4. Mrs. Gray
GATEHEAD.
No.82 May 4. Mr. John Muir, manager of the Gatehead Colliery (Mr. Finnie's), on lease from Lord Eglington
KILMARNOCK COLLIERY.
No.33. May 4. James Findlay, clerk at the coal-office
KILMARNOCK
No.34. May 8. John Thompson, Esq., surgeon
AYR COLLIERY
No.35. May 6. David Neavon, aged 12
No.36. May 6. William Price, a native of Girvan
No.37. May 6. Mrs. Saunders, wife of James Saunders, oversman of Braehead Pit,
Ayr Colliery
CROOK'S Moss PIT, AYR
No.38. May 6. Stephen Trew, aged 16
No.39. May 6. William Wilson
No.40. May 6. Mr. Gibson, surgeon to the Ayr Colliery, residing at Ayr
GALSTON IRON-WORKS
No.41 May 7. William Rew, aged 38
CESSNOCK IRON WORKS, GALSTON.
No.42. May 7. Malcolm M'Callum, Esq., manager and partner
PHOENIX FOUNDRY, GLASGOW
No.43 April 5. Thomas Edington, jun., partner and manager
VULCAN AND LANCEFIELD FOUNDERIES, GLASGOW
No.44 April 9. David Elder, Washington-street, Anderston, manager of the two foundries and engineer works
GREENOCK
CAIRD AND CO's MARINE ENGINE MANUFACTORY AND FOUNDRY
No.45. May 18. John Scott Russell partner and principal manager
No.46. May 18. John Harper, chief clerk at Caird and Co's Manufactory and Foundry, in which situation he has been six years
No.47. May 19. Robert Simpson and Michael Collins, adults
JOHN SCOTT and SON'S SMITH, CHAIN, AND ANCHOR WORKS
No.48. May 19. Messrs. John Smith and John Miller, manager and assistant manager