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Aerial view.
SC 1680481
Description Aerial view.
Date 1990
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 1680481
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 37947
Scope and Content Aerial view of 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. The colliery's main structures run diagonally from lower left to top right: the electrical Substation; the Fanhouse; Number 2 Winding Tower; and Number 1 Winding Tower with the Coal Preparation Plant to its left; and the rapid-loading surface bunker. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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