General view from NE showing NE front of colliery buildings with trucks in foreground

Description General view from NE showing NE front of colliery buildings with trucks in foreground

Date 23/6/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733373

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Wellesley Colliery, Buckhaven, Fife This colliery was sunk in 1883-85 by Bowman and Co, as Denbeath Colliery. It was acquired in 1905 by the Wemyss Coal Co, and renamed Wellesley Colliery. A third shaft was sunk in 1907-10, and the colliery became one of the largest in Scotland. A large new washery was added in 1960. This shows the colliery sidings from the north east, looking towards the screens, where the coal was graded by size and type and loaded into railway wagons. The headgear of one of the shafts is on the right, and the washery is out of sight to the right. This colliery worked seams under the river Forth. It ceased production in 1967, both the washery remained in use to treat coal from Lochhead Colliery, which had closed a short time before this photograph was taken. The surface buildings seen here were demolished and the site became an oil platform yard. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/25/1

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733373

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