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Old pit tubs

Posted by Joseph on 5/4/2026, 9:11 am

any X miners on board remember the waggons, could fill one of them in ten minutes, loved my time down the pit.

Re: Old pit tubs

Posted by Stan Wears on 5/4/2026, 10:24 am, in reply to "Old pit tubs"

Joseph there is one in Easington cemetery and crucifixes made with picks remembering the pit disaster on Tuesday 29th May 1951 when 81 miners lost their lives. There is a coal cutter there too. All buried in a mass grave. Most of them were under 21.

Re: Old pit tubs

Posted by Norman on 5/4/2026, 12:46 pm, in reply to "Re: Old pit tubs"

As you will remember Joseph,Wardley Colliery didn't use small tubs for carrying coal in the 60s. They used what were called Mine Cars to transport coal from underground to the surface and they held nearly 3 ton.I remember the small tubs at Washinton F pit and Washington Glebe pit.

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