Photo - Law's Pit , Broxburn
code: LVSAV2014.074
Description
Black and white photograph of Law's Pit, Broxburn. Rural scene of woman camping with her washing line strung, sitting next to a car and wooden trailor with canvas roof. Shale bings are visible in the distance, c. 1930s.
According to oral history accounts, the Dunnet mine involved cutting through barren land to access seams of Dunnet Shale lying to the south beneath the town of Broxburn. "It never produced any shale or anything, it was only a kind of yard for the mine, and this is where the drawer filled his hutch. He drew it away to the pit head but he never came back with an empty hutch, he came back with a lump of coal for the boiler. This laws pit and it was right opposite a wee farm there, it's away now it's all industrial estate." - Mr Grant Bernard