Lancashire Coalfield
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The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was an important British coalfield. Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests in the Carboniferous period over 300 millio
British Coalfields
Worsley Delph, the entrance to the Duke of Bridgewater's underground mines
Parsonage Colliery in 1980
Astley Green Colliery, offices and headgear
Pit brow women
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Pit brow women or pit brow lasses were female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit bank at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones fr
Lancashire Coalfield
…employers turned a blind eye. After 1842 many women continued to work at the pits but on the surface, sorting coal from dirt on the coal screens, as pit brow lasses. More women were employed in this capacity in Lancashire than on any other coalfield. In 1907 there were 358 collieries and coal was produced largely…
Pit brow lass from Wigan on the Lancashire Coalfield.
A photo of pit girls in South Wales, from the late Victorian period