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Description: | Tub tokens are metal discs with numbers, which are allocated to individual miners. Each tub was marked with the tokens of the hewer, who extracted the coal, and the putter, who led the full tubs to the surface. They indicated how much work a miner had done, so he could be paid accordingly. These tub tokens are from the Morrison Busty Colliery in County Durham, where they were used in the early 1900s. | 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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