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Headstock and surrounding pit-head steel framed building, containing the car hall and main winding level.
SC 376493
Description Headstock and surrounding pit-head steel framed building, containing the car hall and main winding level.
Catalogue Number SC 376493
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 56200
Scope and Content Headframe and Car Hall, 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. A cable runs over the pulleys in the headframe (centre) to raise and lower cages in the shaft beneath, bringing cars up from the underground workings to the steel-framed Car Hall to be emptied and returned underground. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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