Lady Scott continued to be affectionately spoken of in the Lochore district as "Bonnie Jeanie Jobson" until the date of her death. Duncan Gilfillan, 79, committee chair at the Fife Mining Heritage Preservation Society and a retired mining surveyor, said: “I was in the car around lunchtime when mine rescue vans went past, horn blaring and lights on.
Sir Adam Nimmo is Chairman of the Scottish Coalowners' Association, and is the Managing Director of Messrs James Nimmo & Coy., Ltd., of Auchengeich and other collieries in Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire. Retired art teacher Sandy Turner presented varnished sea coal to almost 150 relatives and friends of those who died. He was succeeded as Chairman by Mr Thomas Aitken of Nivingston, who held office as Director for 35 years. Beginning in 1872 with a modest output of between fifty and sixty thousand tons, we did fairly well for a year or two; but lean years followed, during which nearly all the earnings went to pay the men's wages, very little being left to the shareholders. It is traditionally divided into the West Fife, Central Fife and East Fife coalfields with Kirkcaldy having been a particularly important area.
Rescue efforts continued in deteriorating conditions to locate a further three more missing men but to no avail. "Fife Mining Heritage Society: FIFE MINING HERITAGE SOCIETY", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fife_Coalfield&oldid=973387065, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 23:16. The clear glistening washed trebles, nuts, beans and peas of this country present a striking contrast to the American product, and little surprise need be expressed at the fact that within a comparatively short time our foreign markets had been recaptured. sandstone immediately to the south Denork Craig contains the Those shown in bold were worked to the greatest extent: Within the Scottish Coal Measures Group (Middle and Lower Coal Measures): Within the West Lothian Oil-Shale Formation, Monktonhall Colliery was abandoned in 1997 and Blinkbonny mine adit was sealed in 2003 so bringing to an end a long history of deep-mining of coal within the coalfield. Coal Mining in the East Neuk of Fife pinpoints the location of some lesser known mines, such as Radernie which closed in 1946. They found that they could exchange coals with the ordinary consumer for other necessaries of life. In the parish of Beath and the immediately adjoining parishes, within a radius of seven square miles, the Company have as many as fourteen collieries in operation, including Dalbeath, Kirkford No. Besides the coal in these counties, probably two-thirds of that under the Firth of Forth will be worked by collieries in Fifeshire, so that the available resources at less than 4,000 feet deep will amount to something like 5,700,000,000 tons, or sufficient to maintain the present output for 930 years.
With the drainage of the old loch, the flat stretch of country lying between the villages of Blairadam and Lochore took on a different aspect, and the old castle, which for centuries had stood upon an island, was left high and dry.
some Englishmen, judging from the appearance of the ground, Up to now the results have not been as satisfactory as were anticipated.
No better household coal than the Dunfermline Splint had ever been struck in the "Kingdom" and the other eight seams cut through in the shaft were found to be all of good quality and of workable thickness. of coal. Developments were prevented by the strike, and the flooding which followed upon the stopping of pumping operations. The pit was in the Collier-house Park, a little to the north of the spot where Maryburgh was built.â Operations were confined at the colliery for a time to an output for private use, despite the assurance that the minerals were âapparently inexhaustible,â but the Chief Commissioner opened up the crop seams on a more extensive scale, and writing in 1772 he says :- âI have seen all the lawn up almost to the doors of Blairadam House covered with coal.â While the pits at Blairadam were in operation, coal was being worked at Oakfield. The exhaustion of the more shallow coalfields has necessitated the sinking of shafts in Fife to depths of from 200 to 330 fathoms ; and from the deepest workings outputs of from 1,000 to 2,000 tons per day are in many instances produced in two shifts of seven to eight hours. The volatile matters burned with a long, lasting, bright, white smokeless flame. 7,9 AND 10)DALBEATH (CROSSGATES)DONIBRISTLE (JAMES AND MARION)DONIBRISTLE (NOS. The seams which are worked in the Wemyss field today are all above the Millstone grit, while all the Dunfermline seams are under the Millstone grit. Something went wrong - please try again later. It was not just the mines themselves that provided employment in the area. Had he acted differently, then the position of The Fife Coal Company might not have been what it is today. At No. Alloa, 5s. Mr Smith Sligo was Chairman of the Cowdenbeath Coal Company. The Brassie Coal worked in this area of north-east Fife