At the turn of the century, a miner’s home would have looked very similar to this – the range that needs blackleading daily, the copper in the corner to heat water and the mangle to help on washday. When dad came home filthy from a day down the pit, he would have bathed in the tin bath in front of the fire in the days before the Miners’ Baths were built.
Find out more about the local mining experience in our Coal Mining Gallery.
