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The Maypole Pit, Abram.
1959 |
| Maypole Pit. 76 men lost
there lives in the pit dissaster of August 1908 |
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Pit Brow lasses weighing
coal at Douglas Pit. Wigan. |
| Sorting coal |
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Pit Brow lasses at Maypole
Pit |
| Pit brow lasses |
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A collier digging the coal
and a drawer helping with the filling of the tubs |
| A drawer pushing a tub to
the main haulage. |
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A tub being weighed while
another is pushed off. In the centre is the tally boy. In the weigh
house are the weigh man appointed by the company, and the check weigh
man chosen by the men or the union. |
| Bath time for a miner |
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