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View from South East showing (left to right) fan drift, fan house, and fan drift winder house.
B 56191
Description View from South East showing (left to right) fan drift, fan house, and fan drift winder house.
Date 24/7/1991
Catalogue Number B 56191
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 376486
Scope and Content Fanhouse and Fan Drift, Frances Colliery, Fife Frances Colliery was opened in about 1850 by the Fife Coal Company. It was almost totally reorganised in the 1940s, after which it employed over 1,100 people. It was connected to Seafield Colliery on the other side of Kirkcaldy in the 1980s. Fans in the Fan House (rear with the wedge-shaped vent) suck stale air from the Fan Drift, a sloping tunnel that acts as an upcast shaft. Wagons or cars can be hauled up and down the drift by winders in the Drift Winder House (right). By law, every mine must have two shafts so that miners can escape if one shaft is blocked. This also ensures proper ventilation of the mine. Fresh air is pumped into the downcast shaft and stale air is expelled from the upcast shaft. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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