The imposing blue fencing which once ran along the road to Kinghorn has gone, and the the twin towers of the mine came down in the 1980s.And yet Seafield was a place of huge employment for thousands of men.
Work on the colliery in May 1954, and production began in 1966. Five men were killed in a roof collapse in 1973.
The miners’ strike of 1984-85 saw picket lines mounted outside.
By 1988, the colliery had closed. Its twin towers were demolished 12 months later.
Today, the sole acknowledgement of its rich history as a pit is a small brown plaque on the side of a playpark in the heart of the housing estate at Bowhouse Drive.