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Cardowan Colliery View showing miners leaving cage at pithead
SC 587893
Description Cardowan Colliery View showing miners leaving cage at pithead
Date 16/5/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 587893
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 miners coming off shift, leaving one of the cages at the top of one of the original shafts. The small size of the cage is striking. 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 H66/23/1B
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