Pit brow women or pit brow lasses were female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit bank (or brow) at the...
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dress". Concurrently, some female labourers, notably the pit brow women working at coal pits in the Wigan area, began wearing trousers beneath a short...
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Trousers (category Women's clothing)
[citation needed] Starting around the mid-nineteenth century, Wigan pit-brow women scandalized Victorian society by wearing trousers for their work at...
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dress". Concurrently, some female labourers, notably the pit brow women working at coal pits in the Wigan area, began wearing trousers beneath a short...
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Mines and Collieries Act 1842 (category Women in mining)
Retrieved 31 January 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Davies, Alan (2006). The Pit Brow Women of the Wigan Coalfield. Tempus. ISBNÂ 0-7524-3912-X....
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Trencherbone mines. The surface workers included women who sorted coal on the screens at the pit brow. In 1900 the company became the Astley and Tyldesley...
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club were part of the village. The workers, some of them pit brow women who worked on the pit brow screens sorting coal, were provided with hampers or turkeys...
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were northern working women, prominent among these being pit brow women and mill workers, in all probability some Leigh women were represented. Despite...
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the Lancashire Coalfield, women, known as Pit brow lasses were employed on the surface to sort coal on the screens at the pit head. The colliery was linked...
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Mabel and Kate King-May (category British women in World War I)
excluded women from their historical trades. She spent a month working as a pit brow woman to prove that the work was not harmful for women, and published...
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