May: Mr John Fleming, oversman, appointed manager at Lassodie Sep: Mr Robert Penman, former oversman Aitken Pit, appointed to the Mary Colliery. Roden, manager William McMillan Campbell, under-manager.Ĭolliery manager, to Blairadam and Blairenbathie. Campbell, Lochore, appointed under-manager. Mr James Macfarlane, under-manager, to a post at Leven Collieries. ![]() November: James Paterson, oversman, appointed Late manager, leaving for Low Valleyfield position Under- Manager / Men underground / Men above ground / Information on the 19th century pits and mines. Hopefully, John's pics (see below) will enable you to find and admire this rare old structure. John says that the whole of Mannering Street leading from the village of Lochore down to the Mary Colliery entrance would have been lit by a series of these lamps which probably also carried telephone communication cables. John spotted a lamp standard, carrying the remains of a lamp mounting and two insulators, at the north end of the Lochore Meadows Country Park, just beyond the reinforced concrete headgear. In 2018, former Glencraig man, John Carson, now residing in Glenrothes, sent webmaster, Chris Sparling, a series of pics showing what might be the last of its kind in the Lochore area. Another surviving structure from the Lochore mining era Industry for many years, retiring as an under-manager from Seafield Colliery, ![]() Duncan's grandfather, Frank Rolland, served Fife's mining Glenrothes, sent this one to us, in September 2009, with permission to display it ![]() 1, 2 Pits, Lochore, would ever turn up, Duncan Rolland, and just when we thought that no more photographs of the
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