Bowhill Colliery

Location type

Mine

Name and dates

Bowhill Colliery

Served by the Glencraig, Bowhill and Lady Helen Collieries Railway.

Tags

Colliery Mine Pit

Aliases

Josephine Pit
06/09/2023

Chronology Dates

  /  /1895Bowhill Coal Company
Bowhill Colliery sinking of colliery begins.
  /  /1909Fife Coal Company
Fife Coal Company takes over the Bowhill Colliery from the Bowhill Coal Company.
  /  /1913Cadder Pit, Glasgow
Rescue team from Bowhill Colliery, Fife, called out.
  /07/1938Fife Coal Company
Bowhill Colliery baths opened by C Augustus Carlow, managing director of the company, and Alexander McLean, former miner.
  /08/1952National Coal Board
Begins sinking pit no 3 at Bowhill Colliery and improves pits nos 1 and 2.
  /07/1965National Coal Board
Bowhill Colliery closed, but the Bowhill Washery remains open.