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General view from WNW

SC 681036

Description General view from WNW

Date 8/1966

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 681036

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 is a general view of some of the surface buildings at the colliery, with the headgear for both shafts. The right-hand shaft is No 1, the downcast shaft, used for raising coal, and on the left is the upcast shaft, with its metal casing, from which the fan sucked foul air from the workings. The large building between the two headgears was the Power Station. At one time the Colliery generated its own electricity. 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, apart from the waste heap. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/28/22

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/681036

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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