the_historian
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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.
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.
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