Photo - Winding Engine House, Fraser No.1 Pit

code: LVSAV1998.032

Collection code:
LVSAV1998.032
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Photographs
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Description

Black and white photograph showing the interior of the winding engine house of Fraser No 1 pit.

The depth indicator, showing the position of the cage in the shaft, clearly identifies this as Fraser No1 pit. The large winding drum around which the cable is wound, is seen to the right, circa 1950

Fraser pit was one of a number of mines opened or re-equipped c.1938 to feed the new Westwood Oil Works, and boost home oil production. It closed in 1951