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Woodhorn Colliery: Coal Tubs
Tubs were once used to carry coal from the coalface all the way to the surface, from the end of the Mothergate to the
main haulage road. They were pulled by pit ponies and sometimes carried miners to the coal seams. Nowadays coal comes
all the way to the surface on belts.
You can look at a miner's photographs of filling a tub,
a pit pony hauling a tub and loading the conveyor belt as well as Humphrey Spender's photographs of full tubs and empty tubs.
Listen to Jim Slaughter talking about pit ponies
and coal transport today.
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