1940s Mining Life
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Loaf tin, used for baking bread
© National Coal Mining Museum for England (Photo: National Coal Mining Museum for England)
© National Coal Mining Museum for England (Photo: National Coal Mining Museum for England)
Many miners' wives in the 1930s and 1940s used to bake their own bread using a tin like this one. They used their kitchen range to make the dough rise and then to bake the bread. The miner's snap (lunch) tin was just the right shape to hold traditional slices of bread.