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Detail of instrument panel of coal preparation plant, Seafield Colliery

SC 376434

Description Detail of instrument panel of coal preparation plant, Seafield Colliery

Catalogue Number SC 376434

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 81769

Scope and Content Instrument panel, Coal Preparation Plant, 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 instrument panel controls the machinery and processes of the Coal Preparation Plant which washes, sorts, processes and grades raw coal brought up Number 1 Shaft in huge skips, 15 tons at a time. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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