Edinburgh, Gilmerton Colliery coal bing. General view of coal-bing from South West.
SC 358665
Description Edinburgh, Gilmerton Colliery coal bing. General view of coal-bing from South West.
Date 1985
Catalogue Number SC 358665
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 62070
Scope and Content Coal bing, Gilmerton Colliery, Gilmerton, Edinburgh The old village of Gilmerton stands on a ridge to the south of Edinburgh, with open countryside to the south-east. It was originally a mining settlement in the 17th century, and coal-mining was its main source of employment until recent years. This coal bing, the waste tip produced during the process of extraction of coal from the ground, remains as an ugly reminder on the landscape of the once productive Gilmerton Colliery which closed in 1961. The volcanic activity that produced the Pentland Hills and Arthur's Seat threw up almost vertical coal seams. Gilmerton Colliery mined 15 of these seams from one underground horizontal road, including the North Greens seam, the deepest in the Lothians. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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