Old Photographs Kelty Fife Scotland
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Channel: tourscotland · 2018 · Travel & Events
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Kelty, Scottish Gaelic: Cailtidh, a former coal mining village in the heart of the old mining heartlands of Fife. It is situated on the Fife and Perthshire boundary. The Fife Coal Company was established in 1872, by which time three deep mines had already been sunk in the area. The Lindsay Mine was sunk close to the railway station and about half a mile east of the village in 1873. It employed an average of 820 men and continued in production until 1965, finally being abandoned two years later. Many more pits were to follow, the Aitken pit was sunk in 1899 and continued to employ an average of 1300 men until mining ceased in 1963, while the Lumphinnan pits employed an average of 600 men from 1896 to 1966. The village of Kelty lies immediately to the east of the M90 motorway just before, if you are heading north, it passes from Fife into Perth & Kinross. To its east is Loch Ore and, beyond, the villages of Ballingry and Lochore, while a little over a mile and a half to the south east is Cowdenbeath.
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