quantities of excellent coal, for which there had always been a After some persuasion they allowed John to have a look at their gold, when he had to inform them it was worthless, as it was only sulphur iron or sulphur pyrites found in the vicinity of iron ore. Then commenced the sad "trek" home. Rose o' Texas" in a husky voice. Galashiels in the south, to the North of Scotland, and a number comparisons with deep mining methods were given by Mr. J. R. 11 because of the accumulation of a Quitting the quietude of the Valley, the brothers settled down in Dunfermline, and their industry is seen to advantage in the Victoria Works at Grantsbank, and in their last and greatest work, the erection of the Corporation Buildings, Dunfermline. About 3,000 people, acco… The Meadow Pit struck the coal at a point near the crop, which accounts for its shallowness, and the same falls to be said of the Dean Pit. economically got rid of. Lassodie was brought into being, a school and church being erected Councillor Mills' grandfather, who was a pit Although not a native, I had 12 deepened without the occurrence of a single accident. List of Fife Pits,Memorial book,Places of Interest,Historical Notes on the Pits. inhabited. minerials, the late Mr. John Brownlie, father of Mr. H. M. Brownlie The coal-workings of the olden time were continued to a point near Monziehall Farm, and were of the most primitive type. collieries were carried on under the name of Thomas Spowart & A fortunate thing for the company was the fact that at a neighbouring colliery the working were on a lower level that the working of Donibristle, and the flood of water which had overwhelmed the mines of Donibristle in the olden time, and had ultimately led to abandonment, had vanished. Mr James Terris was the cashier at the pit and a Mr Moodie was oversman down below. Presbytery of Dunfermline and Kinross at their meeting on The pit was sunk to the Mynheer seam; but it is evident from the condition in which workings were found that the pump had fallen short of expectations, and the water wheel pit and the mining of coal at Donibristle Colliery were abandoned - the toilers finding employment at the neighbouring collieries, or returning to the lands on which the fathers of many of them had eked out an existence.In the Year 1830In the year 1830, Mr. George Grieve and Mr. Alexander Nasmyth, the father of Mr. James A. Nasmyth, the senior partner of the Donibristle Colliery of today, joined hands and took a lease of the coalfield of Donibristle from the Earl of Moray. building and lifting hutch rails underground is being undertaken The old schoolhouse still belongs to the Colliery Company, and they uphold it as a place of meeting for the villagers. descendant of Ralph Erskine, whose church it will ornament. The Innes family was, I recall, prominent in this connection. nine-teacher school. On reaching the summit of Kingseat Hills a still more enchanting view is obtained of various reaches of the river Forth and the three Lothians.

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