Cardowan Colliery View showing boiler plant
SC 587884
Description Cardowan Colliery View showing boiler plant
Date 16/5/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 587884
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Cardowan Colliery, Stepps, Lanarkshire (North Lanarkshire council area) This colliery was sunk by Nimmo and Dunlop in the 1920s. It was partly re-equipped in the 1950s by the National Coal Board, to produce coking coal for the Scottish iron industry, with a new shaft and over-shaft electric winders. This view shows the boiler installation, with the six hand-fired Lancashire boilers bricked over for insulation. To the left the boiler furnace end are under cover, to protect the stokers. To the right are the dampers which controlled the draught. The colliery was a gassy one, and latterly the methane was drained from above the seam being worked, piped to the surface, and used as a fuel for the colliery boilers. When the pit closed one of the winding engines was preserved at Summerlee. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H66/22/1B
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