Detail of lamp racks & batteries on charge in lamp room, Seafield Colliery
SC 376424
Description Detail of lamp racks & batteries on charge in lamp room, Seafield Colliery
Catalogue Number SC 376424
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 81756
Scope and Content Rack lamps and batteries, Lamp Room, 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. Each miner takes one of these battery-powered electric-lamps with him when he goes underground. They are designed to be 'intrinsically safe', presentign no danger when dangerous gasses are present. Pockets of naturally occurring gas have always made coal-mining dangerous. These include: extremely toxic carbon monoxide, 'white damp'; highly explosive methane mixed with oxygen, 'firedamp'; and noxious smelling hydrogen sulphide, 'stink damp'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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