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Description: | The image is of several miners gathered at No. 7 Pit. It shows the typical wooden winding gear structures and wooden cage (mid background behind the miners). The struts on the wooden poles suggest that the poles may have been climbed for maintenance reasons (maybe to place the rope back on the grooved pulley wheels in case it came off). Note the use of horses in the mines at this time. The gentleman in the bowler hat standing slightly in front of group may be a foreman or similar. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Dudley Public Libraries | Subjects: | Coal mining | Temporal: | c1900 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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