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Deep mining in Douglas: a history - Gazette
06 February 2010
Mining heritage on display in the Douglas Heritage MuseumDeep mining in Douglas: a history
 
Despite all the controversy over the past year regarding mining in the Douglas Valley no-one could argue that the area has a rich mining heritage.
For more than 100 years, deep mining was a part of the community giving the area job security and economic prosperity.

Thanks to a changing economy and lack of investment deep mining was consigned to history in the late 1960s.

To view pictures and read the online Carluke and Lanark Gazette article by Ross Thomson click on the link below
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