brickwall wrote:gordon wrote:Iron ore or something maybe? Remember looking at an old map of Gushetfaulds and the site of the Govan Iron Works, it had a mine right beside it. Could have been coal right enough, but conceivable they could have been connected.
Not knowing anything about Glasgow's geology makes this a wild guess.
I think they used to produce lime from the....er....limestone, and if Ican cofirm this on the map there was a mine round about where the footy pitches are, the ones below Ledcameroch Road and between the railwaiy. There were also mines around the Drumry Road but I don't know what they produced. However, it appears that limestone, coal and iron ore are found close to each other so it was probably a bit of all three.
In the 1600's and 1700's iron works were naturally close to coal and ore mines until the age of the large locomotives. Many of the mines in the west of Glasgow go back, at least partially, to the 1600's.
BTW, I have found a few air vents for mines. They are all out towards Bardowie and Craigmaddie and I would love to find one as close to Glasgow as possible. Does anybody know of one? Even if all that remains is just an old slab in the ground, it would make my year.
That's it Limestone. I am sure now someone said to me it was Limestone for Lime, that would make sense. And if there was Iron Ore yes then that would be extracted.
The only vents for Coal Mines that i have seen were the ones found in Cambuslang Investment Park which were fenced off for many years after some of the Steel Mills were demolished and they were found on the Site.
These Vents along with the actual Mine Shafts have been filled in. I recall that these were very deep Coal Mines.