Pit head scene at South Hetton Colliery, County Durham, England: a) Banksman unhooking corves, b) Hammer for signalling to bottom of the shaft, c) Miners descending the shaft in a corve, d) Banksman and boy shooting coal through screening holes Engraving from 'The Penny Magazine' (London, March 1835).

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Pit head scene at South Hetton Colliery, County Durham, England: a) Banksman unhooking corves, b) Hammer for signalling to bottom of the shaft, c) Miners descending the shaft in a corve, d) Banksman and boy shooting coal through screening holes Engraving from 'The Penny Magazine' (London, March 1835).

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