Glencraig from Lochgelly 1947
*The watermark is for internet copyright purposes only and will not appear on the purchased printGlencraig (Nos. 1 and 2 ) opened in 1896. Glencraig was situated just north of Lochgelly (just under a mile away from Lochgelly railway station) on the road to Ballingry. By the 1930s and 1940s Glencraig had become dominated by huge, dirty, sulphurous bings - the size of bings is very clear in this painting - and in the 1950s Fife County Council decided to clear the old housing and move the population to Ballingry. Glencraig finally stopped operating as a working mine in 1966