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Grayshill Colliery General view showing headgear and surface buildings
SC 604307
Description Grayshill Colliery General view showing headgear and surface buildings
Date 1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 604307
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Grayshill Colliery, East Dunbartonshire This pit was sunk in the 1930s to provide man-winding facilities and safety for Gartshore 9/11 Colliery. Its surface buildings also included pithead baths. The small traditional headgear was fitted with an electric winder. This shows the colliery from the south-east, with the pit-head baths on the right. The limited scale of a pit-head shows it was obviously not designed for coal winding. Note the 'egg-ended' boiler to the right of the headgear, presumably used as a water tank. The colliery was closed in 1968, when the associated Gartshore 9/11 Colliery was abandoned, and it was subsequently demolished. It was a rare example, in Scotland, of a pit not designed to raise coal. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/407/2D
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