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Description: | The hand axe or pick was the main tool of a hewer in coal mines. The hewer excavated the coal from the ground. This was hard work, because lack of space meant that he often had to work kneeling or even lying down. This pick is from the Chester Moor Colliery in County Durham, where it was used up to the 1930s. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East coal mining | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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