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WHILST Scotland’s mining industry is a thing of the past, there are many mining related memorials stretching from Perth in the north to Rowanburn (Canonbie) in the south and from Prestwick in the west to Prestonpans in the east.
There is also the National Mining Memorial Centre at the National Mining Museum Scotland (NMMS). This is based in the Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange in Midlothian, next to the new Borders line railway station. As a volunteer at NMMS I have been seeking to locate and photograph all these Memorials for the purpose of producing an informative handbook, to be placed in the National Mining Memorial Centre.