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Newtongrange, Lady Victoria Colliery, Pithead Building

Colliery (Period Unassigned), Museum (19th Century) - (20th Century)

Site Name Newtongrange, Lady Victoria Colliery, Pithead Building

Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned), Museum (19th Century) - (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Tub Circuit; Tippler Section; Picking Tables

Canmore ID 178942

Site Number NT36SW 22.13

NGR NT 3326 6371

NGR Description Centred NT3326 6371

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Midlothian
  • Parish Cockpen
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District Midlothian
  • Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT36SW 22.13 centred 3326 6371

The Picking Tables were ranges of slow moving conveyors at which workers stood to remove lumps of stone and other unwanted materials from the coal. Women often did this job as they were prevented from working underground by an Act of 1842.

On emerging from the shaft in cages, the hutches of coal were weighed and checked. Their contents were then tipped onto a conveyor belt using a Tippler (there were originally 6).

When first built the pithead had two levels. This allowed 'simultaneous decking' (loading and unloading) of both decks of the double-deck cages. Single of consecutive decking was introduced in 1962.

Information taken from Lady Victoria Scottish Mining Museum pamphlet dated 1991

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