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Woodhorn Colliery: Cavilling
Miners in the 1930s were paid for the amount of coal they produced. The more difficult the coal was to mine,
the more they got paid. This system was called cavilling. A set of prices was published for each mine.
Prices depended on working conditions in various parts of the mine and how thick the coal seam was.
You can enlarge
the front page of Woodhorn Cavilling book for 1932.
Once the pop-up window has appeared by clicking close to the right edge of page you can see the next page and by clicking close
to the left edge, you can go back to the previous page.
From here you can see an undercutter at work or
browse the archive.
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