Old air shaft, Currymire
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Old air shaft, Currymire
Image: © Robert Murray Taken: 10 Feb 2010
This curious looking building covers encloses what was sunk as a winding shaft for a 2km long haulage road which was driven from the Haugh pit at Kilsyth in 1923 to exploit a 1.25m thick seam of coal. However mining lasted only 12 years due to geological faults (Whin dykes) hemming in the seam on one side and flood water from the abandoned Riskend workings which finished extraction from this valuable seam.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.979143
Longitude
-4.029836