Polmaise Colliery 3&4 1904-1987

Such sad news, rest in peace, Elspeth and thanks for all your help and guidance in 2015 for the Polmaise exhibition at the Smith ❤️

Good News!

We’re thrilled to share that the National Mining Museum Scotland has been awarded £97,980 from Museums Galleries Scotland as part of its Repair and Adaptation Programme!

This vital funding will support essential repair work across our site - including restoring the pithead walkway, fixing roof leaks in one of our object stores, and strengthening the structural integrity of our iconic chimney.

These works follow a detailed conservation analysis and audit by our team, forming a key part of our ongoing work to restore, repair, and retrofit our A-listed buildings.

If you’d like to support our conservation work you can make a donation here: https://www.totalgiving.co.uk/appeal/bepartofourfuture

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RIP Jimmy Bone.

Many tributes from the footballing community, especially from HeartofMidlothianFC

Jimmy Bone: 1949-2025 – Hearts By David Speed, Club Historian Everyone connected with Hearts was deeply saddened to learn that a great football man, Jimmy Bone, had passed away on Monday, at 75 years of age. His time in a maroon jersey might have been brief, but Jimmy made a huge contribution towards re-establishing Hearts’ pos...

Spotted a Polmaise headframe on the artwork outside the railway station this afternoon.

Stirling: Alive with Scotland

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Hi folks, be sure to watch this tomorrow evening 👍🏻

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xrwh?fbclid=IwAR0odf2i0QeYSRkcDpD3o1joz5NFW8lHRRrkIZpcwvDfAvatrEMtc80EP9E #:~:text=The%20inside%20story%20of%20Polmaise,to%20go%20back%20to%20work

BBC Scotland - Strike! The Village That Fought Back Story of the miners who went on strike for 56 weeks to save Scotland’s last village pit.

'Bevin Boy' James Turner at Whitehill Colliery, Midlothian in 1946. Bevin Boys were young men conscripted to work in coal mines between December 1943 and March 1948, to increase the rate of coal production, which had declined through the early years of World War II.

Some Polmaise faces on the recent video shared on Twitter by Richard Leonard, remembering Mick McGahey 25 years on.

The video can be found here:

https://twitter.com/LabourRichard/status/1752247778607092106?t=KPimtb_osV_YFK-EhcSjXw&s=19