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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her home overlooks the pithead and the haunting winding gear of a colliery where an explosion once killed over thirty miners.
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Only a third of collieries had pithead baths before nationalisation.
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The original colliery buildings, including the winding engine-house, the blacksmiths' shop and pithead baths.
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The story of the pithead baths bears him out.
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Under the 1911 Coal Mines Act, pithead baths had to be provided if two-thirds of the miners voted for them.
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Whilst cleaning the pithead baths at the Stillingfleet Colliery Tony was asked to wash the back of a bathing miner.