Photograph of colliery roadway. A coal bunker is filling wagons as they pass underneath.
Photograph of Queen Elizabeth talking to Dr William Reid, National Coal Board Scottish Area Chairman, as they progress through the workshops of Cowdenbeath Colliery, with other officials and Princess Margaret following on and machinery and workmen on either side.
Photograph of royal party examining a model of Rothes Colliery in Fife. Queen Elizabeth is on the left with Princess Margaret standing in foreground. Dr William Reid, National Coal Board Scottish Area Chairman, is obscured in the centre.
Photograph of royal party, Princess Margaret, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth, examining a piece of machinery, possibly a coal cutter, in the workshops at Cowdenbeath Colliery. Dr William Reid, National Coal Board Scottish Area Chairman, is on the right.
Photograph of a National Coal Board sea boring tower in Firth of Forth.
Photograph of a National Coal Board sea boring tower in Firth of Forth.
Photograph of Seafield Colliery, with winding towers and surface buildings connected by gantries in view. Railtrack with coal wagons can be seen in the foreground.
Photograph of a shotcrete operator spraying concrete on a wall at Blairhall Colliery in Fife.