Monktonhall Colliery

1993

Underground

Monktonhall Colliery

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs                                                                                                                      Photograph taken May 11, 1993

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Monktonhall Colliery

1993

Underground

This may be the 'main road' underground in Monktonhall Colliery.  If so, it is 3,000 ft underground, and could be reached in two minutes by lift.  Each of the two lifts was  'double-decker' and able to carry 60 miners on each deck.

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