Publication Account

Date 1997

Event ID 1019421

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019421

Scotland's most fully realised integrated deep coalmine complex. Located in the Midlothian Coalfield: a last, great survivor from a period of energentic Coal Board investment during the 1960s. From 1955, two shafts were sunk at Monktonhall, both over 3,000 feet deep, and production commenced in January 1965. The mines built in this programme, such Rothes and Killoch, were characterised by monumental concrete winding-engine towers, and concrete and brick surface buildings, all designed by Riss and his staff. They may be compared with postwar mine-building projects in the Ruhr coalfield, often of similarly colossal scale and refinement, but usually faced in brick. (Figs. 4.37, 4.38).

Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75', (1997).