Corfs

Cages, with tubs containing coal, guided in shafts, also superseded the old use of wicker corfs, by being much safer and better […]

These corfs were also hauled along the tracks using pit ponies rather than the women and boys who had previously been employed for the task.

Descent into a coal mine, early nineteenth century. Notice the wicker corfs that carried coal or people and the naked candle flame […]