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Jim Slaughter's Narrative History:The Heapstead
"Yes, walking down, it�s funny, you had to go up these steps, to get to the cage. The simple reason you had to go up these
steps, it was a marvellous system, the heapstead. The tubs, once they came out of the cage, they ran all the way, they ran
about thirty yards first, down this gradual�under their own steam, just a gradual slope, to this large creeper. And this
creeper took them to a good height. And away from there the tubs ran all the way round the heapstead, past the weigh, around
to the tippers, where they were tipped onto screens, away round the valley, all the way back to the shaft under their own
steam, just the gradual incline all the way round. But that�s the reason why you didn�t sort of just walk along the ground
and into the cage. You went up the steps to the high place."
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