The miners working day
Reborrowed this book from Manchester Library. Brilliant and interesting, again it is mostly photographs (as you have probably gathered I like books with lots of pictures).
Mines and miners of south Lancashire 1870 - 1950
A photographic record
J. Lane and D. Anderson
I will probably be boring some of you but will put a few quotes (over the next few days) which may be of interest, and certainly made me think about what a debt this country owes to those brave men who risked their lives every day and without whom there would have been no industrialization.
From the book :-
An example of the timetable of a working day in the life of a coal miner in the Wigan district of Lancashire during the decade 1920-30 may be of interest.
He would probably rise from his bed about 5.20 am and have breakfast from 5.25 am to 5.40 am ( his wife would have risen before him and prepared his breakfast and his sandwiches to take to the mine).
From 5.45 am to 6.10 am he would travel by public transport (electric trams) to the stopping place nearest to his colliery; 6.10 am to 6.30 am - he walked to the mine, checked at the lamproom and collected his safety lamp. At 6.30 am he was expected to reach the pit shaft and by 6.40 to be in the mine reporting his presence to his official in charge. From 6.45 he would begin his journey into the mine workings to his place of work, the time of his arrival at that place depending upon the nature of the journey, distance, gradient, height of the roadways and temperature. The working shift would end about 2.00pm, giving him 30 minutes to leave his working place, recover his clothes and make the return journey to the shaft bottom where he would wait, along with many other men from different parts of the mine, for his turn to be raised to the surface.
On the surface he returned his safety lamp to the lamproom and collected his "check" (a numbered disc), this recording his return from undergound. Assuming his walk back to the trams would be three quarters of a mile, he would probably board a tram about 3.15pm and arrive home at about 3.45 to 4.00 pm. His last meal would have been sandwiches and cold tea in the mine about 11.00 or 11.30 am. On arrival home his principal meal of the day was ready.
Mines and miners of south Lancashire 1870 - 1950
A photographic record
J. Lane and D. Anderson
I will probably be boring some of you but will put a few quotes (over the next few days) which may be of interest, and certainly made me think about what a debt this country owes to those brave men who risked their lives every day and without whom there would have been no industrialization.
From the book :-
An example of the timetable of a working day in the life of a coal miner in the Wigan district of Lancashire during the decade 1920-30 may be of interest.
He would probably rise from his bed about 5.20 am and have breakfast from 5.25 am to 5.40 am ( his wife would have risen before him and prepared his breakfast and his sandwiches to take to the mine).
From 5.45 am to 6.10 am he would travel by public transport (electric trams) to the stopping place nearest to his colliery; 6.10 am to 6.30 am - he walked to the mine, checked at the lamproom and collected his safety lamp. At 6.30 am he was expected to reach the pit shaft and by 6.40 to be in the mine reporting his presence to his official in charge. From 6.45 he would begin his journey into the mine workings to his place of work, the time of his arrival at that place depending upon the nature of the journey, distance, gradient, height of the roadways and temperature. The working shift would end about 2.00pm, giving him 30 minutes to leave his working place, recover his clothes and make the return journey to the shaft bottom where he would wait, along with many other men from different parts of the mine, for his turn to be raised to the surface.
On the surface he returned his safety lamp to the lamproom and collected his "check" (a numbered disc), this recording his return from undergound. Assuming his walk back to the trams would be three quarters of a mile, he would probably board a tram about 3.15pm and arrive home at about 3.45 to 4.00 pm. His last meal would have been sandwiches and cold tea in the mine about 11.00 or 11.30 am. On arrival home his principal meal of the day was ready.
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