Record

Ref NoSWCC/PHO/COL/113
TitleUnidentified collieries: photograph of a pit pony hauling a tram of coal [duplicates]
DescriptionPhotograph shows a shaft and gun linkage stopping the heavy load from crashing into the animals legs on slopes when reversing. One miner holds a candle the other has a primitive oil lamp and is smoking. He is at the lamp station an area known to be gas free where safety lamps are relit.
Date1906
SubjectCoal mining
Underground
Physical DescriptionBlack and white reprints
Place_CodeANW/PLACE/485
Extent3 photographs [253mm x 206mm; 202mm x 167mm; 151mm x 117mm]
Places
CodeSet
ANW/PLACE/485Pontypool/Wales
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