Carlisle is the closest city to Oughterside that offers transport links to other locations across the UK through the railway network.

However, during this time the population of the Allerdale district fell, this may well be due to the two world wars, with men going off to join the army.

The availability of jobs, such as the mining industry saw a decline in population in the early 1900s and during the war time period.

Many jobs have turned from agricultural to city workers, thus many people have moved away to urban areas at this time and men had gone off to fight in battle.

J. G. Scoular took over as manager for the next couple of years until in 1923 when the Bullgill company took over, producing an annual output of 100,000 tons of coal used for Coking, Household and Steam.