Kirkford Colliery

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Kirkford Colliery

Open on the Fife Coal Co Ltd.

Chronology Dates

  /  /1896Cowdenbeath Coal Company
Fife Coal Company
Taken over by the Fife Coal Company. The FCC takes over Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 7, Cowdenbeath Pit No 9 (recently sunk), Lumphinnans Colliery Pits Nos 11 and 12. Kirkford Colliery (Cowdenbeath Colliery No 10) is sunk by new company.
  /07/1907Fife Coal Company
Three men are trapped in a rockfall at Kirkford Colliery (Cowdenbeath Colliery Pit No 10). One managed to escape to raise the alarm but, regrettably, subsequently dies.
  /  /1930Fife Coal Company
Mossbeath Pit re-built and linked to Kirkford Colliery, Cowdenbeath Colliery No 10 (Cowdenbeath).