"The History of the Somerset Coalfield" by C G Down & A J Warrington (David &
Charles, 1971) contains a photograph of Lower Conygre colliery at Timsbury (p
52) which appears to show coal being loaded onto a wagon through a chute. As
the colliery closed in 1916 this would be about the right period, but I don't
know whether it was a typical arrangement throughout the country.
Keith Ramsey
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