Monktonhall Colliery

1993

Above theGround

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Monktonhall Colliery

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs                                                                                                                      Photograph taken May 11, 1993

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Monktonhall Colliery

1993

Above Ground

Here are the towers for the two lifts that took miners 3,000 ft underground, at Monktonhall in two minutes.  The lifts were 'double-decker' and able to carry 60 miners on each deck.

 

 

Monktonhall Colliery

Edinburgh at Work

  

 

 

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