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Coal Mining

Last updated: 22nd March 2017

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guss-and-crook — Guss and Crook

lower-conygre-12 — Lower Conygre Pit. The chimney being demolished probably in 1910.

lower-conygre-11 — Lower Conygre Pit

lower-conygre-6 — Lower Conygre Pit

lower-conygre-7 — Lower Conygre Pit

lower-conygre-8 — Lower Conygre Pit. This is an early picture showing full trucks being lowered down the incline. Notice the chain between the tracks which used to do this.

lower-conygre-9 — Lower Conygre Pit

lower-conygre-2 — Lower Conygre Pit. Picture of the pithead where the trucks have been loaded into the cage ready to be lowered for filling.

lower-conygre-1 — Lower Conygre Pit. This shows the brick chimney which replaced the previous stone one.

lower-conygre-5 — Lower Conygre Pit

lower-conygre-4 — Lower Conygre Pit

lower-conygre-3 — Lower Conygre Pit

upper-conygre-1 — Upper Conygre Pit. The first shaft was sunk in 1791. It was at this pit that the largest lump of coal was raised – 25 cwt.

lower-conygre-10 — Upper Conygre Pit

upper-conygre-2 — Upper Conygre Pit

miners — Miners

timsbury-coal-transport-3 — Timsbury Coal Wagons

timsbury-coal-transport-4 — Timsbury Coal Wagons

timsbury-coal-transport-2 — Timsbury Coal Wagons

timsbury-coal-transport-1-wagon-at-twerton — Timsbury Coal Wagons

timsbury-colliery-rescue-brigade — Timsbury Colliery Rescue Brigade

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