View from SE showing ESE and SSW fronts of E building with headgear of number 7 pit in background

Description View from SE showing ESE and SSW fronts of E building with headgear of number 7 pit in background

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 710496

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Pennyvenie Colliery (Nos 2, 5 & 7), East Ayrshire The Dalmellington Iron Works was opened in 1848, and closed in 1921. The surviving coal mines sunk to serve the works were sold to Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd in 1931 and were nationalised in 1947. The sinking of the no 7 shaft was begun by Bairds and Dalmellington in 1945. This shows the colliery from the east, with the large headframe belonging to the No 7 shaft. The long building below and to the left of the headgear houses the screens for separating the coal by size. Pennyvenie coal was much valued as house coal, but declining demand and rising costs led to its closure in 1978. The surface buildings were demolished soon after, but the railway to the site was retained by the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group, who use it on summer weekends. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/36/17

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