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Highhouse Colliery, Interior View showing part of winding engine
SC 617951
Description Highhouse Colliery, Interior View showing part of winding engine
Date 25/6/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 617951
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Highhouse Colliery, Auchinleck, East Ayrshire This colliery was sunk in 1894 by the Eglinton Iron Co, and was taken over by Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd in 1930 before being nationalised in 1947. Latterly it was connected underground with the Barony Colliery. It had two shafts, one with a steam winder, the other electrically wound. This shows the left-hand cylinder of the steam winding engine. This was built by Grant, Ritchie & Co of Kilmarnock for the opening of the colliery. In the centre is the dial of the depth indicator, showing where the cage is in the shaft. This engine was used for man winding only. This colliery closed in 1983, and some of the surface buildings were converted into an industrial estate. The engine in its house and the steel headgear which replaced the original wooden one in 1968, were preserved. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H69/532/1A
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