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Mary Colliery, Headgear View of preserved headgear
SC 556363
Description Mary Colliery, Headgear View of preserved headgear
Date 6/7/1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 556363
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Preserved headgear of the Mary Colliery, Lochore, Fife The sinking of deep pits in the West Fife coalfield led from the 1890s to the construction of pithead facilities on a very large scale to handle large numbers of miners and great quantities through a pair of long and narrow shafts. This pit-head frame, unusually constructed of reinforced concrete, was built to wind coal from a shaft immediately below the right-hand edges of the pulley wheels. The winding engine would have been in a house to the left of the frame. This frame survived the closure of the pit and the clearance of the other pit-head buildings to be preserved as a feature of the Lochore Meadows Country Park, laid out on land reclaimed from a devastated mining landscape. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H79/97/12
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/556363
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
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