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View from SE of headstock and winding engine house (with pipes ready to be taken down the mine in foreground).
B 56201
Description View from SE of headstock and winding engine house (with pipes ready to be taken down the mine in foreground).
Date 24/7/1991
Catalogue Number B 56201
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 376494
Scope and Content Winding-Engine House, Headframe and Car Hall, 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. A cable runs from the Winding Engine house (right) over the pulleys in the headframe to raise and lower cages in the shaft beneath. The pipes are laid out ready to be installed underground as part of the pumping system which is required to drain the mine. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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