The money spent on the installation of pithead baths was money well spent.
None is lying on the pitheads except what is kept as a working reserve.
In addition, the pit is equipped with the most modern pithead baths and showers and excellent canteen facilities.
I can look back upon a period when women were doing laborious work at the pithead.
For example, one does not have residential encroachment on to a pithead where an operator has been located nearby to pick up coal.
Do not all the ports need baths similar to the pithead baths that we have at every coal mine?
It has been estimated that we have 2,000 million tons of spoil at pitheads, near abandoned collieries or working collieries.
It is true that a stimulus was given to the pithead bath scheme through the mining royalties levy which was first promoted in 1926.
