Rothes Colliery, Glenrothes, Fife

RIBA Ref No RIBA75589

Architect/Designer	Riss, Egon (1901-1964)
Artist/Photographer	Galwey, Reginald Hugo de Burgh (1917-1971)
Country	UK: Scotland
City	Glenrothes
Subject Date	1958
Image Date	1958
View	Exterior
Medium	Photoprint
Library Reference	BM/IND/15/A (Galwey ER/19)
Orientation	Landscape
Colour Info	Black and white
Credit	RIBA Collections
Subject	New towns ; Colliery buildings ; Concrete

NOTES: Rothes was an experimental colliery for which Glenrothes, Scotland's second New Town, was created in 1948 to provide housing for the coal miners and their families. The pit closed in 1961 because of unstemmable flooding problems and a decline in coal requirements nationwide.

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