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View from North of building containing electrical sub-station and fire station (left), and headstock and car hall (centre).
SC 376491
Description View from North of building containing electrical sub-station and fire station (left), and headstock and car hall (centre).
Catalogue Number SC 376491
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 56198
Scope and Content Fires Station, Electricity Substation, 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. Fire fighting equipment is stored in the Fire Station built onto the side of the Electricity Substation where transformers convert the 22,000 Volts coming into the colliery from the national Grid to 3,300V. The headframe rise from the a Car Hall. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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