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General view from ESE showing colliery complex

SC 786374

Description General view from ESE showing colliery complex

Date 4/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 786374

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Bedlay Colliery, East Dunbartonshire This shows the colliery from the south-west, with the coal-winding shaft to the right, with its friction-winding tower on top. To the left is the washery which treats 'run of mine' coal, which is extracted from thin seams. The buildings seen here all date from the mid-1950s modernisation, completed in 1958. The colliery closed in 1971, with the exhaustion of readily-worked coal reserves. Scotland was very short of coking coal, needed for modern by-product recovery coke ovens, so this seams were worked where they occurred, at considerable expense. This colliery was sunk in 1905 by William Baird & Co to mine coking coal for their Gartsherrie Iron Works in Coatbridge. After nationalisation of the coal industry the colliery was modernised in the mid-1950s, to increase output to supply the new Ravenscraig Steel Works. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/30/8

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/786374

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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