Scottish Industrial Heritage Society

BBC One - Villages by the Sea, Series 4, Culross Ben Robinson discovers the first underwater sea coal shaft in the world.

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Villages by the Sea
s4 Ep 1 of 10, Culross

Ben Robinson visits #Culross, a stunning C17th village that was a major centre for Scottish coal mining and the site of the first underwater sea coal shaft in the world.

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A wooden boat that has seen better days, on the shore of the Forth, in front of Stirling Castle.

Date Saturday 8 February 2025; place Stirling. DM for details, to make offers of talks and to hear the programme nearer then. With AGM and a big lunch.

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Map of the LNER's East Coast Main Line, and connexions, between Edinburgh and Berwick on Tweed that was the main line of the North British Railway. From a booklet to celebrate the centenary of the NBR that was commemorated in 1946 and that was written by railway historian George Dow who also drew this map.

From a booklet, issued by the London & North Eastern Railway to celebrate the centenary of the North British Railway that was commemorated in 1946. It is a plan of Edinburgh's General and Canal Street stations prior to the closure of the Canal Street line and its tunnel under the New Town, and later reconstruction that created the city's Waverley station.

Cover to the booklet issued by the London & North Eastern Railway to celebrate the centenary of the North British Railway that was commemorated in 1946. It shows thebadge of the NBR and the contempory coat of arms of the London & North Eastern Railway.

Issued by the London & North Eastern Rly in 1946 to celebrate the centenary of the North British. Map of the East Coast Main Line in Scotland by G. Dow, of diagram fame, & a 1860 plan of Edinburgh's General & Canal St stations before it became Waverley. @threadinburgh.scot

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Granton Gas Holder now a permanent illumination in Edinburgh From Friday night Gas Holder 1 in Granton will be permanently lit up as the centrepiece to the regeneration of the area. First constructed in 1901 the 46 metre high gas holder has been refurbished in a multi million pound project carried out by contractors, McLaughlin & Harvey on behalf of The City of Edinburgh Council. This was one of twelve storage tanks serving Edinburgh and the surrounding area and had already been repainted 72 times before the recent works to overhaul it.

Granton Gas Holder now a permanent illumination in Edinburgh

From Friday night Gas Holder 1 in Granton will be permanently lit up as the centrepiece to the regeneration of the area. First constructed in 1901 the 46 metre high gas holder has been refurbished in a multi million pound project carried…

A wooden boat that has seen better days, on the shore of the Forth, in front of Stirling Castle.

Date Saturday 8 February 2025; place Stirling. DM for details, to make offers of talks and to hear the programme nearer then. With AGM and a big lunch.

With many industrial archaeology topics recorded

Very nice evening at Kirkcaldy Galleries to mark the launch of ‘Before and After Coal’. Artist Nicky Bird worked with The National Galleries of Scotland and former mining communities to display pictures of Scottish miners by American photographer Milton Rogovin in 1982 and added some new ones too.

Spinning and weaving sheds at two mills in Walkerburn, with Ballantyne Institute, centre, a pump-storage hydro electric power station top left, using the River Tweed, and mass concrete houses. 1980s SDA photo.

Caerlee Mill, oldest spinning/ carding mill in the Borders, 1788, awaiting convesion to mountain bike centre while houses are built in other parts of the site in Innerleithen.

Oops its Ballantine's. Ballantyne's are the Peebleshire mill owners. Tweedvale and Tweedholm Mills in Walkerburn, Caerlee Mill ib Innerleithen, latterly Ballantyne Cashmere. Their March St Mill in Peebles is only now being demolished.

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Even with LEDs and e-bikes, we have to ask how much we need and what is enough. "Efficiency without sufficiency is lost."

Poor Stanley Jevons gets dragged out in every discussion of efficiency, but he wasn't wrong; when things get more efficient, we use more of it or use the savings to buy something else. It's why we need sufficiency, too, asking what is enough? How much do we really need?

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1/2 Nice end to the week project volunteer Sophia met with former OH Sister Yvonne at Polkemmet Colliery #Whitburn (ca. 1921-1986) who photographed the systematic destruction of the surface buildings (excepting the management offices pictured). #Coal #MiningHeritage

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Caphouse Colliery as a working pit in the 1980s

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It's our first post on @bsky.app! 🦋 Join us as we take you on an adventure 140m underground into England's last accessible deep coal mine.

We love to preserve the coal mining industry’s rich heritage and tell the incredible story of our coalfields. ⛏️

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A pastel drawing of three men passing a short iron plate through a rolling mill inside an open-sided shed in an ironworks. The colour scheme is predominantly oranges and yellows. The men wear loose clothing and cloth bonnets. The scene shows the Waverley Iron Works in Coatbridge in 1920 and is by an unknown artist.

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Here is a guide to the different kinds of ironworks and the jobs that were done there www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/so-you...

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The King came to Glasgow to view the Mirrlees, Tait & Watson’s sugar machinery works on Scotland Street, an important industry in Hawaii.

The former Leith Central station and signal box, viewed from the opposite side of Easter Road, in 1986. Pic: Neale Elder.

Old Town, Waverley Bridge and Canal Street Station | Edinburgh Old Town Unknown photographer, before 1868 (when Canal Street Station closed). In the foreground to the left is the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway Station (Canal Street Station), later replaced by Waverley ...

I collect old photographs of buildings and places in Scotland. I have now scanned a few of Central Edinburgh and stuck them on my website. Do have a browse (better on a laptop than a phone, but both should work): www.conserve.scot/edinburgh-ol...

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#ceramicTiles #Entrance #Tenement #WallyClose #Tile #Tiles #tilestyle #tilework #LivingHistory #Archive #Flats #Heritage #ceramics #Scotland #Scottish #Fairytale

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Bridges across the Firth of Forth from South Queensferry. (2023) Pic: Graham Paton.

Panoramaaufnahme bei bewölktem Himmel. Drei Brücken über einen Mündungstrichter. Links, etwas verdeckt, eine Schrägseilbrücke, dann eine Hängebrücke und im rechten Bildteil eine gewaltige Auslegerbrücke mit bauchigen Pfeilern.

Und hier das Forth-Brücken Panorama.

Von links nach rechts Queensferry Crossing (M90) 2017, Forth Road Bridge (A9000) 1964, Forth Bridge Eisenbahn 1890

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Visited the National Mining Museum in Newtongrange, Scotland.
Fantastic guided visit in Lady Victoria colliery by former mining surveyor Dave.

The sun setting behind two Victorian gas holders next to the Forth and Clyde canal in Anniesland, Glasgow.

Awful. There are two beauties in my old 'hood in Glasgow, thankfully b-listed by Historic Environment Scotland. I miss seeing them every day.

A repurposed industrial building made of brick. A sign reads Memorial Centre. Ghostly handprints are visible in the windows above.

The outside of the museum: disused mine buildings and vegetation growing through asphalt.

A ghostly handprint on a dirty window. On a sign beside it are words from the testimony of a female Victorian miner including 'crushes' and 'bends'.

Looking up to a huge glass ceiling past old metal infrastructure. A mannequin of a mine operative looks down at us.

Went to the Scottish Mining Museum.

Signal box with telegraph poles and a green steam locomotive, smoking.

New to Blue Sky today! SIHS (Scottish #IndustrialHeritage Soc) was formerly on twitter but stopped last year for obvious reasons. Coming up, our annual Burns Doo lunch offered and powerpoints invited- date and location TBC, but no surprises expected. Meantime, getting up steam at #Boness B&KR