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the structures and machinery associated with the mine when it was operational. Structures include the mine portals, tramway, pithead, coal handling and...

college, where his work was based mainly on industrial themes such as machinery, pithead gear and spinning mills. On leaving college at 16 he was offered a...

blacksmith's shop and carpenter's shop, first-aid and fire station with stable, pithead baths, tools store and the central gateway. In 1969, three years after...

was acquired by Flutters Bingo. The headstocks and nineteenth century pithead buildings of the former Snibston Mine form a prominent feature to the west...

the infrastructure around the mines (e.g. headframes, poppet heads and machinery) was dismantled for recycling purposes during the war effort. In many...

given a welfare role for its then 700,000 or so miners (pithead baths, Summer Schools and machinery for joint consultation). He served for a year until Shinwell...

training for newcomers before going down to the coalface, and the making of pithead baths into a standard facility. The newly established National Coal Board...

wound ore to the surface was mounted in the first floor of the substantial pithead buildings, it pulled the mine's narrow gauge tramway wagons along the sloping...

debris from the downshaft. A temporary hospital was established at the pithead. Medical and rescue stores were brought in and by 2 a.m., the cages could...

a mining housing estate was built in 1872, a few dozen meters from the pithead. It consisted of four houses built of roughcast sandstone rubble, each...

smoke. As word of the disaster spread, Creswell residents rushed to the pithead to offer assistance. One miner, who had broken his back several months...

developed by the Mount Cuthbert Company from about 1907. By 1912 temporary pithead gear was in place: a winch and boiler and a headframe from Charters Towers...

footwear, clothing factories and laundries. The price of a ton of coal at the pithead was 350 Belgian francs (equivalent to US$138 in 2023), but on the black...

immediately modernised, completed in 1954 with a new block housing new pithead baths, canteen and offices designed to cater for up to 1,100 men. The pit...

analogous to the 18th-century wagons which could be manoeuvered around pitheads before joining the track for the longer haul. Bridge rail is a rail with...

and ANF winning machine, roof supports etc. Notes Carreau translates to pithead or pitbank in English Footnotes "ERIH: The Carreau Wendel Museum". European...

new sport pitches and allotments if required. On the site of the former pithead up to 160 homes will be built, which will include affordable housing and...

above the main floor accessed the cages’ upper deck. Construction of the pithead building and the adjoining screens commenced in mid to late 1913. The headframe...

produce one million tons of saleable coal in a year. The colliery and pithead baths complex are on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register due to...

1156023 More images Pithead Baths at Lynemouth Colliery Including Offices and Canteen (now the Medical Wing) Lynemouth, Northumberland Pithead Baths 1938 18...