General view from S showing S front of old washer plant (right) with coal elevator shed and hopper, headgear, dense medium plant, pithead building and south elevator conveyor system on left

Description General view from S showing S front of old washer plant (right) with coal elevator shed and hopper, headgear, dense medium plant, pithead building and south elevator conveyor system on left

Date 2/7/1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 710571

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Midlothian This colliery was sunk in the early 1890s by the Lothian Coal Co, commencing production in 1895. It was sunk to the bottom of a large coal basin, and was the deepest pit in Scotland. It was planned for a long life and on a generous scale, using the existing Lingerwood Colliery for its second shaft. This shows the colliery from the south. The headgear is in the centre, with the new washery to the left, and the old washery on the right, in the tall building. The lower buildings on the left house the picking tables, where the dirt is picked out of the coal by hand. The colliery closed in 1981, and was saved to become the Scottish Mining Museum. For a time it was linked with the first Scottish Mining Museum at Prestonpans, but the link was severed in the 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/41/11

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/710571

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