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pithead

(ˈpɪtˌhɛd)

(Mining & Quarrying) the top of a mine shaft and the buildings, hoisting gear, etc, situated around it

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pithead - the entrance to a coal mine

entrance, entranceway, entryway, entree, entry - something that provides access (to get in or get out); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral"

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ingresso di miniera

pithead

[ˈpɪthed] N → bocamina f

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pithead

[ˈpɪthɛd] n (British) → carreau m de minepith helmet n → casque m colonial

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pithead

n → Übertageanlagen pl; at the pithead → über Tage; pithead ballot → Abstimmung f → der Bergarbeiter

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pithead

[ˈpɪtˌhɛd] n → imbocco della miniera

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Author Dane said: "Most were erected by mine owners to house workers - usually close to the pitheads, and maybe remote from the main centres of population.

Book on histories of mining villages

But we can still see the extent of the industry in this region at one time with the amount of pitheads.

Legacy of industrial heritage

Kolkata: Indian government is pushing Coal India to liquidate about 40 million tonnes of unsold coal piling up at pitheads of mines.

Government pushing Coal India to liquidate 40m tonnes of unsold coal

At the time, he was based in the Bridgend offices of the Echo's sister weekly paper, the Glamorgan Gazette, and recalls how he would often be called out to be at pitheads in the area to catch the arrival of possible strike-breakers on the early shift, or be in place to photograph hauliers delivering iron ore to the steelworks at Port Talbot, another flashpoint for pickets and police.

Life on the strike frontline, by an Echo journalist

One civil servant wrote in a memo: "The law and order problems of coping with pickets, not just at the power stations but also at the pitheads, would be enormous and would arise from the very outset of the strike.

WE'LL CALL IN THE ARMY TO BREAK THE MINERS' STRIKE

"It is I believe a history which has been marginalised over time...take for example the parks and shopping centres now built over the closed pitheads and factories.

Hero worship

He said: "I have found the local allotments, canal locks and pitheads especially fascinating.

Paintings with a home town flavour; Exhibition

Similarly, the Talcher thermal plant in Orissa and the Farakka plant in West Bengal are also located at pitheads but are being forced to operate with low stock.

COAL CHOKE

The coal industry has kept several of its pitheads and turned them into museums, has any thought been given to celebrating our steel-related industries or will they continue to be grassed over and forgotten?

Blast from past; Your say

Colliery brass bands were the musical standard-bearers as beaten but unbowed miners trudged back to their pitheads at the end of the year-long strike in March 1985.