Cerridwen Connelly wrote:
> I was thinking of the horizontal/slanting shafts where the coalface
> workers often have to bend over to work because the height seems to
> have been designed for mythical dwarves form Tolkien, or just to save
> money.
No - shafts are vertical. Horizontal workings off the shaft are called
drifts, galleries or levels.
John Briggs
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