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General view from top of No. 1 shaft winding tower from NE of coal-stocking ground (16.3 acres).

SC 376623

Description General view from top of No. 1 shaft winding tower from NE of coal-stocking ground (16.3 acres).

Catalogue Number SC 376623

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 17669

Scope and Content Coal-stocking ground, Monkton Hall Colliery, Midlothian Monkton Hall Colliery was sunk in 1954-67 and was one of the National Coal Board's five Scottish super-pits. Coal production reached 5,000 tons per day in 1968. Most of the output went to Cockenzie Power Station. It was closed in 1997 and then demolished. 16.3 acres of the colliery site is given over to the coal-stocking ground where reserves of coal are kept prior to sale. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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