Comrie Bevin Boy Camp, Fife

Managed to get over here yesterday. This Miner's Hostel for Bevin Boys employed at Comrie Colliery (that's Fife, not Comrie, Perthshire!) opened on 21/12/1944 with planned capacity of 200 men. However it only had 102 men there in December 1945, by which time the Bevin Boy scheme had been abandoned in all but name.
As well as the huts you can see here, there were 8 nissen huts built in two series of four, with brick interconnecting corridors down the middle, a brick-built boilerhouse and more concrete huts at the eastern side. These are all gone.

Mess huts- these are BCF Light huts; concrete panels fitted between concrete 'cruck'-style uprights on concrete platforms, with asbestos
roof sheeting.

Offices-

I'll post more later.

Cracking pictures Historian. The offices remind me of the ones at HMS Gosling 3. There are alot of cars there, is the site still being used for some pourpose?

Tom

Cheers Tom-
Yes, the camps' on private property and is used by a haulage firm. I got permission to wander round from the owner.
Here's the last of the pics; the first gives you some idea of the construction-









I don't know when the camp went out of use, but the colliery itself shut in 1983 after a 47 year lifespan.

Great Photo's Gordon. Gives you an insight to what life, above ground, must have been like for the Bevin boys. Nice to see that the original buildings have been put to good use and not just demolished.

interesting site, not something I have seen before, thank for sharing.

My pleasure, chaps.
Jon,
One of the reasons so many huts remain is because the owners have been told they can demolish the huts...but they're not allowed to put anything else up to replace them.

Thats the way to do it. If more councils decided to do that then a lot more of our heritage would remain. Nice one Gordon

This is excellent. Great to see something from a fascintaing period in mining history!

Oh, this is interesting. Good to see so much of it still remaining.
The offices are great...very narrow corridor though!
Fab pics, Gordon.