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Description: | A working gin pit at an unknown location in the Black Country. These were common sites in coal mining areas, and were often used where the coal was shallow, and there was no need to sink deep mine shafts. The gin (to the left) was a wooden wheel device on a spindle that was pulled round by a horse. This then operated a simple pulley system that raised or lowered loads up and down the shaft. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Photograph Photographs Coal mining | Temporal: | [Late 19th cent] | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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