View from North-East of No. 4 shaft and fan house.
SC 376925
Description View from North-East of No. 4 shaft and fan house.
Catalogue Number SC 376925
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 80729
Scope and Content Number 4 Shaft, 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. Number 4 Shaft (headframe to the left) was devoted to ventilation, emergency winding and maintenance. The fan house (right) contains a 4.33m diameter, 947 kW fan to suck stale air out of the workings, keeping the atmosphere safe and breathable. Pockets of naturally occurring gas have always made coal-mining dangerous. These include: extremely toxic carbon monoxide; highly explosive methane mixed with oxygen, 'firedamp'; and noxious smelling sulphur dioxide. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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