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General view from NNE showing colliery complex
SC 793753
Description General view from NNE showing colliery complex
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 793753
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Michael Colliery, East Wemyss, Fife, from north-west This view from the north-west, taken in 1979, shows the winding headframes of the colliery to the left, with the chimney for the boiler-house which supplied steam to the original steam winding engines. The Firth of Forth is in the left background, and on the right are some of the houses built for miners working in the pit. The fire in 1967 killed nine men, though 302 escaped. The shafts were retained for pumping from 1968, to keep the workings of the Frances Colliery at Dysart free of water. After the abandonment of that pit in the early 1990s the sets of headgear seen here were demolished. This colliery was developed in 1895-8 by the Wemyss Coal Co to work coal seams extending under the Forth Estuary. It originally had two shafts almost 549m deep. These were re-sunk in 1926 and 1940. It was Scotland's most productive pit for many years, but closed in 1967, as a result of an underground fire. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CTH150
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