- one
pit which was
divided by a brattice. A
furnace was kept
burning within the
pit and the hot air rose up the one side of the
brattice (the
upcast side)...
- of the
upcast pit. Hot air
rising up the
pit, as if up a chimney, drew the
exhausted and
contaminated air out of the galleries.
Downcast pits let the...
- more
pits (for
instance see the
description of Felling), one
pit was the "downcast
pit" down
which fresh air travelled, the
other the "
upcast pit" up which...
-
through water-bearing strata. Two main
pits were sunk: the
North Shaft (downcast) and the
South Shaft (
upcast). Both of
these reached down to the Hutton...
- down the pit to
ventilate the workings. The Lamp
pit was the
upcast pit,
meaning air p****ed up the
pit. At the time of both
disasters the
ventilation was...
- was used for
upcast air ventilation. In 1878, the main
shaft was
deepened to
reach the Old Coal seam at 293 feet (89 m). By 1908, Big
Pit provided employment...
- All the dead were in the
headways by
William Pit (the
upcast pit).
Those in the
boards away from
William Pit were saved. The
Newcastle Courant reported...
- The
colliery was
demolished in 2005. Its
number 1
pit was the downcast, and its
number 2 was the
upcast. In 1960, the mine emplo**** 1,734
people (1,390...
- the
shaft itself being deepened by
driving up from below,
whilst in the
upcast pit-bottom, a
compact mine-car
circuit was constructed, with the coal now...
- Collieries. The
colliery initially had
three shafts:
Hetty Pit (downcast,
later upcast),
Pit No. 2 and
Pit No. 3 (downcast). On
Tuesday 11
April 1893 a fire in...
