Interior. View of pithead baths showers.
SC 376922
Description Interior. View of pithead baths showers.
Date 1988
Catalogue Number SC 376922
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 80724
Scope and Content New Pithead baths, Barony Colliery, Ayrshire Barony Colliery's Shafts 1 and 2 opened in 1910 under Bairds and Dalmellington Ltd. Shaft 3, planned in 1938, opened in 1945. Shaft 2 collapsed and Shaft 1 was filled in 1962. Production halted until 1965 when shaft 4 was sunk. The mine closed in 1989. This is the inside of the new Pithead Baths, built in the 1950s. Covered corridors connect the baths directly to all the other parts of the colliery. According to the official brochure, this was 'much appreciated in wintertime or inclement weather'. After 1911, colliery owners were required by law to provide pithead baths for the miners. This meant that they could wash the coal dust off their bodies and out of their clothes before going home. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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