Via email from ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk):
Nearly 5,000 images of plans have been added to the ScotlandsPeople website. Created between 1955 and the late-1980s, these plans depict abandoned and active mine workings across much of the central belt of Scotland from Ayrshire through to Stirlingshire.
There's more on the release at https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/record-guides/coal-board-statutory-working-plans:
National Records of Scotland (NRS) holds 4,865 National Coal Board statutory working plans of abandoned and current workings (NRS, RHP146000) created under requirements of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954. These plans were created between 1955 and 1989 as a response to the Mines and Quarries Act 1954 . This act required mining managers to keep accurate plans of abandoned and active workings in the mine, as well as all other workings within the boundaries of the mine or within a prescribed distance of the mine. Additionally, sections of the seams or veins of working coal and their overlaying strata were sometimes included.
These plans cover much of the central belt of Scotland and have generally been catalogued from left to right, from Ayrshire through to Stirlingshire. Only areas with active or abandoned coal workings are represented, including underwater workings.
The images are free to view.
Does your house have an old mine shaft under it?!
Chris
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Hmm! Interesting but would rather they got on with filling the gaps in things like mms up to 1974.
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