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Valleyfield colliery was the scene of one of Fife's worst mining disasters, claiming 35 lives and leaving 42 children without a father.

© Kenny Smith Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The five bespoke audio guides can be downloaded on the izi.travel mobile phone app. Walkers can then listen to local people sharing their knowledge of the former mining communities in the west of the region. Rab McKenzie, left, and Kate Stewart. The guides highlight Fife’s landscapes, local heroes, architecture and once thriving industry, all of which are steeped in history. They span the coastal routes and the centre of Fife and include Kincardine, Culross, ...

THE photographs in this week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane look back at one of the worst mining disasters in Fife. It happened early on the morning of October 28, 1939, in the Diamond Section of Valleyfield Colliery. In all, 35 men lost their lives. An explosion of fire damp took place in the section in which all the 33 men who were employed there must have been killed almost simultaneously. In the Culross Five Feet Section some distance away from the scene of the explosion, about a dozen other men were injured. Four of these men were taken to Dunfermline and West Fife Hospita...