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- Women, " pit brow lasses ", worked on the screens sorting coal from rock until 1955.
- The surface workers included women who sorted coal on the screens at the " pit brow ".
- Some of the surface workers were women, known as pit brow lasses, who sorted coal on the screens at the pit head.
- After 1842 many women continued to work at the pits but on the surface, sorting coal from dirt on the coal screens, as pit brow lasses.
- The workers, some of them pit brow women who worked on the pit brow screens sorting coal, were provided with hampers or turkeys at Christmas by the company.
- The workers, some of them pit brow women who worked on the pit brow screens sorting coal, were provided with hampers or turkeys at Christmas by the company.
- In 1923 the colliery employed 1524 men underground and 436 surface workers; The surface workers included women, known as pit brow lasses, who sorted coal on the screens.
- In common with many collieries on the Lancashire Coalfield, women, known as " Pit brow lasses " were employed on the surface to sort coal on the screens at the pit head.
- Starting around the mid-19th century, Wigan pit brow girls scandalised pit brow lasses worked above ground at the pit-head, their task of sorting and shovelling coal involved hard manual labour, so wearing the usual long skirts of the time would have greatly hindered their movements.
- Starting around the mid-19th century, Wigan pit brow girls scandalised pit brow lasses worked above ground at the pit-head, their task of sorting and shovelling coal involved hard manual labour, so wearing the usual long skirts of the time would have greatly hindered their movements.
- At this point bureaucracy took over, with the BoT Railway Department going through the necessary processes with the WISC and CWJR . Colonel Druitt reported on the Rosehill Junction to Lowca line on 8 May 1913 taking what must have been one of the last steps in the approval process, because the Light Railway Order sanctioning the Harrington and Lowca Light Railway was signed eight days later on 16 May 1913 and services began a fortnight after that on 2 June 1913, with the inaugural train posing with mineworkers of both sexes, akin to the Pit Brow Lasses of the Wigan coalfield.