Detail of one of two Penman Cornish-type coal-fired boilers in boiler house, with Oldbury chain-grate automatic stoker retracted.
B 17663
Description Detail of one of two Penman Cornish-type coal-fired boilers in boiler house, with Oldbury chain-grate automatic stoker retracted.
Date 1/6/1989
Catalogue Number B 17663
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 376618
Scope and Content Boiler, Boiler-House, 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. This is the mouth of one of the two Penman Cornish-Type boilers in the Boiler-House. The chain-grate automatic stoker (left) is a fire-proof conveyor belt for stoking the boiler with coal. When in position inside the firebox, it also acts as a grate. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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