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Pithead at Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, 1860. Artist: Unknown

Pithead at Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, 1860. Artist: Unknown

1-158-275 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Pithead at Hebburn Colliery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne area, 1860. The engine house (left) provides power for the winding gear (centre) which is raising baskets (corves) of coal from the bottom of the pit and filling the wooden railway wagons. On the wagon at left the brake is easily visible. From A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields ... by W Fordyce. (London, 1860).

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  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
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  1. W Fordyce: British: Author
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  1. Engraving
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World Europe United Kingdom England Tyne and Wear South Tyneside Hebburn

  1. 54 58 00 N , 001 31 00 W
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Science & Nature Technology & Innovation

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5078x3440
File Size : 51,177kb

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  1. 006948
  1. 006948
  1. 0460000712
  1. 1-158-275
  1. 1158275
  1. 712
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