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Compressor house, with remains of earlier ventilation mine winding engine house (left, now used as a store) seen from North East.
SC 376490
Description Compressor house, with remains of earlier ventilation mine winding engine house (left, now used as a store) seen from North East.
Catalogue Number SC 376490
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 56196
Scope and Content Compressor House, Frances Colliery, Fife Frances Colliery was opened in about 1850 by the Fife Coal Company. It was almost totally reorganised in the 1940s, after which it employed over 1,100 people. It was connected to Seafield Colliery on the other side of Kirkcaldy in the 1980s. The Compressor House (right) contains equipment to produce compressed air to drive machinery around the colliery and underground. The building on the left, now a store, was originally a Winding Engine House for an earlier drift mine. Piped steam and compressed air are often used to power coal-mining machinery because it is safer to create power away from coal dust and possible pockets of gas than to risk setting off an explosion with a spark or flame from an engine or motor. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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