| 11. | Mechanical tipplers ( still extant ) were installed at the pithead to handle the new steel skips.
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| 12. | The few police present could not control the crowd, which invaded the pithead and interfered with operations.
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| 13. | The main concert building, Mimerlaven, was once a pithead frame for the extraction of iron ore.
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| 14. | Here, they were attached to a steam operated cable and pulley system that hauled them to the pithead.
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| 15. | The museum features a range of above ground attractions including a winding house, saw mill, pithead, baths.
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| 16. | The winch house associated with the cable system is extant on the site just to the north of the pithead.
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| 17. | These took coal from the pithead down to a staithe, where the coal was loaded into river boats called keels.
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| 18. | The mine was unusually complex for its time, with the different pitheads being interconnected by underground galleries on many levels.
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| 19. | A party of men at the pithead had lowered a thermometer to check when the second explosion occurred at 08 : 55.
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| 20. | The pithead bath house built by the Miner's Welfare Committee in the 1930s survived and was converted to other uses.
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