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Detail within Banksman's control cabin in winding engine house.
SC 376503
Description Detail within Banksman's control cabin in winding engine house.
Catalogue Number SC 376503
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 56211
Scope and Content Control desk, Winding-Engine 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 winder operator, or banksman, controls the winder from here. The instruments tell him the positions and speed of the cages in the shaft, as well as the condition of the winders. Most colliery winders are manually operated bcause: the load varies; the shaft's depth changes as the mine expands; and for safety reasons since, until recently, only a human could be trusted to control and monitor the machinery. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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