Old photograph of Kirkford Colliery by Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland. When the coal trade started to boom, Cowdenbeath was divided into four districts named after various farms. One part was called Cowdenbeath after the farm which was near Central Park and another was called White Threshes after a farm to the south of the town. Another area was called Foulford and then there was Kirkford. There was industry in the town prior to 1890. About 1850, the Oakley Iron Company, who had blast furnaces at Oakley, came on the scene. Shafts for iron ore were sunk in the vicinity of the old Foulford Washer and it was in the mining for ore that the discoveries of coal seams were made. Pits were then sunk in about every corner of Cowdenbeath.
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