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Distant view from SSE
SC 679487
Description Distant view from SSE
Date 1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 679487
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Mauchline Colliery, East Ayrshire This colliery was opened in 1925 by the Caprington & Auchlochan Collieries Ltd and produced house coal. It was purchased in 1935 by Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd. It was linked to the Kilmarnock-Carlisle railway by a private branch line. This shows the colliery from the south, with its waste heap behind the headgear of the two shafts. Its rural setting is striking: most of its miners were housed in the village of Mauchline, about 1.6km away. This colliery was closed in 1966, probably owing to declining demand for house coal, large stocks of which were on hand in the colliery in the summer of 1966. The washery was kept on to deal with coal from the Sorn Mine until it closed in 1985. The site has now been cleared. The waste heap or bing was removed a number of years ago and was used to build embankments and bottoming for the A77 at Bellfield interchange, Kilmarnock. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/24/2
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