Note

Date 2006

Event ID 1122932

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1122932

(Location cited as NT 1717 9636). MARY (also known as Lochore colliery)

Location: Lochore

Previous Owners: Fife Coal Company

Types of Coal: House, Navigation

Sinking/Production Commenced: 1904, No. 2 shaft in 1923

Year Closed: 1966

Year Abandoned: 1968

Average Workforce: 614

Peak Workforce: 780

Peak Year: 1957

Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts, No. 1 (ventilation) 201m (NT 1717 9636), and No. 2 521m deep (NT 1704 9619), built in 1923 with a reinforced concrete headframe. Original sinking in 1904 took it to 613m, at the time the deepest mine in Scotland.

Details in 1948: Output 800 tons per day, 211,355 per annum. 647 employees. Baum-type washer (wet coal cleaning system). Canteen (packed meal), first-aid room. AC electricity. Report dated 10-08-1948.

Other Details: Reconstruction programme under way in 1946 included the introduction underground of large mine cars and locomotive haulage. New car handling plant was added at the surface, as was a redd disposal plant. Reinforced concrete headframe for No. 2 shaft now survives as part of Lochore Meadows Country Park.

M K Oglethorpe 2006.