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...

dress". Concurrently, some female labourers, notably the pit brow women working at coal pits in the Wigan area, began wearing trousers beneath a short...

[citation needed] Starting around the mid-nineteenth century, Wigan pit-brow women scandalized Victorian society by wearing trousers for their work at...

dress". Concurrently, some female labourers, notably the pit brow women working at coal pits in the Wigan area, began wearing trousers beneath a short...

Retrieved 31 January 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Davies, Alan (2006). The Pit Brow Women of the Wigan Coalfield. Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3912-X....

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...

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...

were northern working women, prominent among these being pit brow women and mill workers, in all probability some Leigh women were represented. Despite...

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...

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...