Lindsay Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lindsay Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kelty 4 And 5
Canmore ID 131511
Site Number NT19SW 61
NGR NT 1484 9414
NGR Description Centred NT 1484 9414
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Beath
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT19SW 61 1484 9414
LINDSAY Colliery (originally known as KELTY 4 and 5)
Location: Kelty
Previous Owners: Fife Coal Company
Types of Coal: House and Steam
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1873
Year Closed: 1965
Year Abandoned: 1967
Average Workforce: 818
Peak Workforce: 970
Peak Year: 1957
Shaft/Mine Details: 1 shaft, 239m (NT 1484 9414). 2 surface mines (NT 1475 9414), No. 1 214m (sunk in 1924), No. 2 98m deep (sunk in 1945). Lindsay 2, a surface mine sunk in 1939, closed in 1947, at which time it employed 83 people. The pit was reconstructed in the 1950s, and included pithead baths, a canteen and medical centre. An underground explosion on 14 December 1957 killed nine men.
Details in 1948: Output 1,000 tons per day, 250,000 tons per annum. 790 employees. Simon Carves washer (1920). Small 'piece-canteen', first-aid. AC electricity, National Coal Board (NCB) -generated. Report dated 16-08-1948.
Other Details: Originally Kelty 4 and 5, but renamed Lindsay after the first chairman of the Fife Coal Company, William Lindsay. Connected to Aitken [NT19SE 33]. Reconstruction of underground facilities under way in 1946.
RCAHMS 2006
