Pithead at Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, 1860. Artist: Unknown

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Pithead at Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, 1860. The engine house (left) provides power for the winding gear (centre) which is raising baskets (corves) of coal from the bottom of the pit and filling the wooden railway wagons. On the wagon at left the brake is easily visible. From A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields ... by W Fordyce. (London, 1860).

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Size: 5078px × 3440px
Location: World,Europe,United Kingdom,England,Tyne and Wear,South Tyneside,Hebburn
Photo credit: © Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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