No.1 shaft - detail at top of shaft showing two chutes down which coal is emptied from full skips raised up the shaft (payload 15 tons per skip), Seafield Colliery
SC 376439
Description No.1 shaft - detail at top of shaft showing two chutes down which coal is emptied from full skips raised up the shaft (payload 15 tons per skip), Seafield Colliery
Catalogue Number SC 376439
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 81774
Scope and Content Top of Number 1 Shaft, 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 is the top of Number 1 Shaft. Coal skips, carrying up to 15 tons of raw coal, are emptied into the chute to the right. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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