Auchinloch

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Auchinloch (Gaelic: Achadh an Locha) is a village in North Lanarkshire, near Lenzie in Scotland. The village's name - "Field of the Little Loch" - derives from its proximity to a small loch locally called the "Gadloch". Industrialization came in the 1880s, with the opening of the Lumloch Colliery, and then in the 1920s Wester Auchengeich Colliery. The latter closed in 1968.

Just outside Auchinloch is the Wallace Well, also Cardyke Farm Shelter, a branch of Cats Protection.

Map of Auchinloch in 1923

1 The Village
2 Auchengeich mining disaster
3 References
4 External links

[edit] The Village

Auchinloch is home to the school, Auchinloch Primary, which is in the catchment area for Lenzie Academy. There is also a small corner shop, where a shooting incident took place in 2000. The shop has since re-opened. Auchinloch Community Center lies at the top of the village, near the local pub, the Golden Pheasant. There is also a Bowling Green in the village.

[edit] Auchengeich mining disaster

In September 1959, 47 men lost their lives in a coal mine near the town of Auchengeich when a faulty fan purifying the air in the colliery went on fire due to an electrical fault. The men were in bogies travelling to the coal face to start work, and due to the intense smoke they were abandoned just a few hundred yards from safety. The mine was eventually flooded to put out the fire; there was only one survivor from the crews. The mining disaster was one of the worst ever within the UK; widowed 41 women and left 76 children without a father.^[1]