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Interior view of pithead baths - a block of 80 showers, Seafield Colliery
SC 376407
Description Interior view of pithead baths - a block of 80 showers, Seafield Colliery
Catalogue Number SC 376407
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 81733 CN
Scope and Content Showers inside Pithead Baths of 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 shows a large block of showers, designed to serve hundreds of men at a time coming up from working a shift underground. After 1911, colliery owners were required by law to provide pithead baths for the miners so they could wash the coal dust off their bodies and out of their clothes before going home. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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