Re female underground workers see Seal. C. The Northern Mine Research
Cociety Newsletter December 1996 p.3 Mentions that a lady by the name of
Angela was working in Barhaugh colliery near Alston when the colliery was
visited on 14th September 1996. "Angela is a legal underground employee,
probably the first woman coal miner since 1840. On the days she works, she
fills and putts tubs as well as helping out with the screening,---she is an
attractive young woman of slight build, who would not play prop forward for
Widnes." Barhaugh Colliery was privatly owned and worked a seam of
semianthracite. (It may still be working, I have not been that way for a
little while due to the foot and mouth outbreak.)
Ray Fairbairn
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