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Lady Victoria Colliery: Fines Treatment Plant

Date 5 February 2009

Event ID 911281

Category Management

Type Site Management

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/911281

FINES TREATMENT PLANT: Tall, brick structure to the north of the pithead. The surface buildings and plant together form the best preserved pre-First World War model colliery complex in the UK. Complete model colliery comprising brick-built and steel-framed structures with sheet-metal-clad roofs.

The surface buildings and plant together form the best preserved pre-First World War model colliery complex in the UK. Complete model colliery comprising brick-built and steel-framed structures with sheet-metal-clad roofs. (Historic Scotland)

The Fines Treatment Plant cleaned the dirty water from the Dense Medium Plant and was built in 1963-64. The Thickener is a concrete settling pool. (RCAHMS from Museum pamphlet dated 1991)

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