Full Details

Surname

AITKEN

Forename

James Maxwell

Day

18

Month

03

Year

1929

Age

Occupation

Miner

Mine/Quarry Name

Hopetoun, No.2 Balbardie Pit

Mineral Worked

Coal

Owner

William Baird & Co. Ltd

Location

Bathgate

County

Linlithgowshire

Details of Event

James Aitken, miner, 37 Mid Street, Bathgate, died on 18 March 1929 at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from injuries sustained earlier that day in No.2 Pit, Balbardie, Hopetoun Collieries, Bathgate, when coals fell from the roof on him.