Cages, with tubs containing coal, guided in shafts, also superseded the old use of wicker corfs, by being much safer and better […]
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Corfs
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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.
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Descent into a coal mine, early nineteenth century. Notice the wicker corfs that carried coal or people and the naked candle flame […]
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