No.1 shaft - detail at top of shaft showing two chutes down which coal is emptied from full skips raised up the shaft (payload 15 tons per skip), Seafield Colliery
A 81774
Description No.1 shaft - detail at top of shaft showing two chutes down which coal is emptied from full skips raised up the shaft (payload 15 tons per skip), Seafield Colliery
Date 9/5/1988
Catalogue Number A 81774
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 376439
Scope and Content Top of Number 1 Shaft, Seafield Colliery, Kirkcaldy, Fife Seafield Colliery was sunk by the National Coal Board in 1954-66. It was one of five new super-pits and, in its heyday in 1970, employed 2,466 people. It was closed in 1988. This is the top of Number 1 Shaft. Coal skips, carrying up to 15 tons of raw coal, are emptied into the chute to the right. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/329139
Attribution: © RCAHMS
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
