Fife Coal Company

Fife Coal Company
SuccessorNational Coal Board
FormationSeptember 1872; 152 years ago (1872-09)
Dissolved1946; 78 years ago (1946)
HeadquartersLeven, Fife
Productscoal, ironstone, bricks[1][2][3]
Chairman
William Lindsay (1872–1884)
Thomas Aitken (1884–1907)
Charles Carlow (1907–?)[4]
C. Augustus Carlow (?–1946)

The Fife Coal Company was formed in 1872 to acquire the small Beath and Blairadam Colliery with its pits in Kelty. Its head office was in Leven.[5][6] In addition to coal, the company worked some ironstone.[7] For the whole of its operating life, the company was run by Charles Carlow and then his son C. Augustus Carlow. Output was expanded from an initial 70,000 tons a year to 4.3m. in 1911. Although it became the largest coal company in Scotland, Fife Coal never regained that level of output in the inter-war period.

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  2. ^ "Bowhill Brick Works, Bowhill Colliery, Fife | Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry".
  3. ^ "Kelty, Blairadam Brick Works | Canmore". canmore.org.uk.
  4. ^ "Fife Coal Company - Scottish Mining Website". www.scottishmining.co.uk.
  5. ^ "Fife Coal Co - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk.
  6. ^ "Fife Mining Heritage Society: a Home Page 2". www.fifeminingheritage.org.uk.
  7. ^ "Durham Mining Museum - Fife Coal Co., Ltd". www.dmm.org.uk.