Waterside Colliery, Coal Washery View from W showing NCB West Area no. 24 with coal washery in background
SC 634724
Description Waterside Colliery, Coal Washery View from W showing NCB West Area no. 24 with coal washery in background
Date 31/10/1964
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 634724
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Coal washery, Waterside Colliery, East Ayrshire This coal washery was built in the early 1930s by Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd, which had been formed in 1931 to amalgamate the coal mining interests of the Eglinton Iron Co and the Dalmellington Iron Co. Coal was brought here from all the Doon valley pits, by private railway. This shows National Coal Board 'No 24', built in 1953, at the washery, which can be seen in the background. Note the wooden wagons on the left, used for bringing the unwashed coal from the collieries, with, behind them, steel-bodied British Railways wagons used to take the coal to market. The underground mining of coal in the upper Doon valley ended in 1978 with the closure of Pennyvenie Colliery pits 2, 3 and 7, the pits which No 24 had been built to serve. The washery building, which was decaying badly, was demolished in about 1988. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/64/2/2
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