Archaeology Notes

Event ID 715605

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT36SW 22.06 centred 3332 6380 and 3330 6381 to 3334 6378

Boiler (Egg-end)

The foundations of the original c.1890 colliery boiler house which served the original power house were discovered during building work on the museum site.

Information from K Lingstadt, Curator, Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, 28th November 1998.

Originally the chimney stood 150 feet (46 metres) high, and provided the updraft for the bank of steam boilers. It has since been twice reduced in size, mainly for safety reasons.

The surviving plant was installed sometime between 1913 and 1932, and eventually replaced the original boiler house which stood nearby. The new arrangement had 12 Lancashire Boilers, which were later reduced to 8, with economisers. They were fed with silt from the Dredger or Fines Treatment Plant.

The original boiler house housed only six boilers of a similar type.

Information taken from Lady Victoria Scottish Mining Museum pamphlet dated 1991