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Job descriptions 

Thoresby S5's Face Team.jpg
Photo by Anthony Kirby
BH1 - Describes what an onsetter does
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JHN1 - How young miners progressed
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MW3 - Responsibility of an overman
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DH2 - Miners and fitters
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JHN4 - Roadsmen are doggies
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PR3 - Miners as corporals
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KC6 - What's a packer?
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NC4 - The role of a ganger
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DJ4 - What does a haulage man do?
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JK1 - Description of his first job
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DJ12 - Ropemen and banksmen
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BPN10 - The role of the banksman
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DW6 - What is a big hitter?
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JHK1 - What's a ganger?
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NC1 - The role of a cable man
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RG8 - Belt men and chockers
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RG1 - What is a button job?
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TF6 - Who carried gas detectors?
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BPN12 - Ripper and packers
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DA6 - Different types of managers
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DJ13 - Names that do what they say on the tin
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PT1 - Rippers and chockers
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PT10 - Lots of different jobs underground
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RG5 - Who's the spare board?
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RW6 - Who looked after the 'hosses'?
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Working conditions

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Ellistown - last coalface 1989.jpg
Photo by Mike Conibear
Johnny Burgin K12's shearer - 1989.jpg
David Amos Collection
AD2 - Working in 3 foot seams
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BH8 - Temperatures below ground
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AB2 - Clothes worn in the mine
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DA1 - Miners don't travel light
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DA8 - Just getting on with the job
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AD1 - No day was the same
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DC2 - Routines at work
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DH6 - Pit Baths
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DC4 - Mines could be hot places
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DJ7 - Shift patterns
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LM9 - Mines could be wet places
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SF4 - Really wet places
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RCH9 - Miners could be fashion victims
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DJ8 - Working through your snap time
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PT3 - And just when you thought you knew
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BPS3 - Mines could be wet
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DW3 - Mines could be really hot
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DW4 - Mines could also be really cold
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FW5 - Mining was thirsty work
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RG2 - More thirsty work!
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LM8 - This miner explains the heat
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MW5 - And another one
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