View looking E showing surface buildings
SC 685770
Description View looking E showing surface buildings
Date 26/7/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 685770
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Fauldhead Colliery, Dumfries & Galloway This colliery was sunk in two stages, in 1896 and 1911. The first two shafts were sunk by J I McConnell, and the second two by the Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Ltd. It was taken over by William Baird & Co in 1925, and produced a wide range of coals. This shows the colliery from the north-west, with the No 3 shaft headgear in the distance. On the left is the locomotive shed for the colliery shunter, and to the right of the shed is the Hoffmann continuous kiln of the Fauldhead brick works, built in 1912. Latterly Fauldhead was producing steam coal with a high sulphur content that was burned by steam locomotives. The end of steam on British Railways ended that market, and so Fauldhead was closed. The brick works continued to work into the 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/11/36
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