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    Annesleyred
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    Quote Originally Posted by helachau View Post
    The earliest I have found is from the Manchester times, Dec 1862, reporting an explosion at the Edmund's Main pit which included -
    "...... Johnson's duty was to fire shots and attend to the two board gates in that portion of the pit. The shot firers were appointed last Friday week; before that day the colliers fired their own shots. Joseph Walton was the other shot firer......."
    A gate is a roadway so he was probably firing shots in a
    Heading (a developement road)
    Last edited by Annesleyred; 24-06-2014 at 7:22 AM. Reason: spelling

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    Board was at that time the term for a Gate of access to a Stall.
    A stall was the coal face between the boards. Much shorter Coal Faces than later with pillars of Coal left between them.

    Hence the terminology " Board and Stall" or "Pillar and Stall"

    Some years ago in Derbyshire opencast work uncovered some of these old workings.

    The term Stall was still used by many in later years when the "Longwall" system came into use and coal was still being produced by undercutting and hand filling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian S View Post
    Board was at that time the term for a Gate of access to a Stall.
    A stall was the coal face between the boards. Much shorter Coal Faces than later with pillars of Coal left between them.

    Hence the terminology " Board and Stall" or "Pillar and Stall"

    Some years ago in Derbyshire opencast work uncovered some of these old workings.

    The term Stall was still used by many in later years when the "Longwall" system came into use and coal was still being produced by undercutting and hand filling.
    Nice one Brian S , I could never figure out the connection why a roadway was called a Gate, so from Bord and Pillar it was retained as the Gates / roads were longer . Cheers

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    A very useful site I have discovered is "www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/disasters". It is a database of coalmining accidents and deaths in the UK (pre 1950) which you can search by surname and/or colliery, with thousands of records. Very interesting.

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