Dumbreck Colliery View of surface buildings
SC 604314
Description Dumbreck Colliery View of surface buildings
Date 1967
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 604314
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Dumbreck Colliery, North Lanarkshire Opened in 1887, this was one of a group of collieries in this area sunk by William Baird & Co Ltd, primarily to supply coal to the firm's Gartsherrie iron-smelting works in Coatbridge. It closed in 1963, but the extensive washeries were retained to serve coke ovens on an adjacent site. This shows the more modern of the two washeries, with its steel-framed, brick-panelled building and concrete tower for removing suspended solids from waste water. The colliery buildings were originally on the right. The colliery was part of an network of rail-linked pits feeding originally to a battery of beehive coke ovens, then, from World War II, to a set of by-product-recovery ovens on a site to the west of this site. The washery seen in this view served all the collieries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H67/408/1D
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