For most of its life, the port was most associated with the shipment of coal, and associated cargoes including the importation of pit props.
22.
Much of this is sold to local saw mills and used in the building industry with the remainder producing fence posts, pallets and pit props.
23.
In 1908, at 22 years of age, he moved to work for Evans and Reed, Cardiff coal exporters and importers of pit props.
24.
This included the installation of two John Fowler & Co . winding machines, and the forest fully cleared, with wood stored for pit props.
25.
For many years, pit props were exported to the Welsh and English coal mines, though the volume suggests that many ended up in British pulp mills.
26.
In the 18th and 19th centuries coal from South Wales was the main cargo and in World War II pit props cut in local forests were the return cargo.
27.
Shortly thereafter " Soesterberg " sank, spilling her cargo of pit props, several of which fell on survivors of the " Assyrian ".
28.
Goods dipatched included eating and seed potatoes, sugar beet, straw, hay, pit props, oak, beech and spruce logs, animals for slaughter and for breeding.
29.
The first Company Town in Labrador had been born and large scale commercial development of the woods around Alexis and Lewis Bays for the export of pit props to south Wales had begun.
30.
Every morning before the start of the shift the butty would go down with his safety lamp and check the workings for gases and to see if any more pit props were required.
