Seafield Colliery

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Site of the colliery, now a housing estate

Seafield Colliery was in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Work on the colliery was started on 12 May 1954 and production began in 1966. [1] On 10 May 1973, five men were killed when a roof collapsed. [2] [3] Despite it being said that it had a life of 150 years, with millions of tons, much of the coal being deep under the bed of the Firth of Forth, [1] Seafield Colliery was closed in 1988. [4] In September 1989, the Seafield Colliery twin towers were demolished. [5] [6]

Darts player Jocky Wilson, was once a miner at the colliery. [7]

The site of the former colliery has been built over and is now a housing estate. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 Hutton, Guthrie (2022). The Scottish Coal Industry. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing Ltd. p. 43. ISBN   978-1-84033-928-4.
  2. ↑ "Experiencing the terror of being trapped underground". www.fifetoday.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Seafield Colliery Roof Fall - Kirkcaldy - 1973".
  4. ↑ "Pit closures, year by year". BBC News. 5 March 2004. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  5. 1 2 "25th anniversary of miners' strike". www.fifetoday.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "Fife Nostalgia: The 'burial' of Seafield". www.fifetoday.co.uk.
  7. ↑ "Jocky Wilson, Scotland's darts hero, dies at 62". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

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