| 1. | A brown coal pit was in operation here in 1746 .
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| 2. | In 1860 numerous old and current coal pits dotted the area.
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| 3. | In 1880, the Mines Inspector reported 534 coal pits in the Lancashire field.
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| 4. | He said up to 198 of Russia's 218 coal pits were taking part.
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| 5. | Numerous coal pits were present in the Doura, Benslie, Auchenwinsey and Sourlie areas.
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| 6. | Wet Earth Colliery was another early coal pit located in Clifton.
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| 7. | Other mines in the area were the Deep Sick Coal Pits.
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| 8. | More people in Scotland now worked in coal pits and factories than in agriculture.
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| 9. | At about this time the waggonway was extended southwards to coal pits at Windygoul.
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| 10. | The coal pits in the village were active throughout the nineteenth century and into twentieth.
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