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P number: P000085
Old photograph number: C03591
Caption: Cowglen, near Thornliebank, 3 miles south-west of Glasgow. Renfrewshire. Shallow stoop and room workings in Main or Rough Coal, exposed during excavations at New Fever Hospital site. Looking east-south-east, approximately in the direction of the dip.
Description: Cowglen, near Thornliebank, 3 miles south-west of Glasgow. Renfrewshire. Shallow stoop and room workings in Main or Rough Coal, exposed during excavations at New Fever Hospital site. Looking east-south-east, approximately in the direction of the dip. Showing old pillars of coal and mouths of galleries. The white top to some of the pillars is an ironstone rib. The steam from the sitting workmen's braziers could indicate they are having their 'pieces'. During pipe-track laying in the floor of the seam, a further subsidence took place, a shallow pit was then dug and an underlying coal was found 6 ft. below the upper and corresponding to the Stinking Coal of the Cowglen succession.
Date taken: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1937
Photographer: Fisher, W.D.
Copyright statement: Crown
Acknowledgment: This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
X longitude/easting: 255500
Y latitude/northing: 659500
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Landscape
Size: 264.75 KB; 1000 x 734 pixels; 85 x 62 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 194 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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