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1940s Mining Life

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Go to the page that contains this image: Living history interpreter as Mrs Lockwood in the miner's kitchen  Go to the page that contains this image: Kitchen sink in the gallery at the Museum  Go to the page that contains this image: World War II ration book  Go to the page that contains this image: World War II clothing ration book  Go to the page that contains this image: Kitchen range, a coal-fired fireplace which included an oven and a hob 
Go to the page that contains this image: Meat mincer  Go to the page that contains this image: Traditional wooden rolling pin  Go to the page that contains this image: Loaf tin, used for baking bread  Go to the page that contains this image: Tin bath  Go to the page that contains this image: Caphouse colliery pithead baths, built in 1938. 
Go to the page that contains this image: Coal hearth shovel  Go to the page that contains this image: Outside lavatory with high-level cistern, on display at the Museum  Go to the page that contains this image: Wireless (radio)  Go to the page that contains this image: Making a rag rug at the Museum  Go to the page that contains this image: Darning mushroom, mostly used for darning socks 
Go to the page that contains this image: Carpet beater  Go to the page that contains this image: Clothes pegs, of a type usually made by travelling people  Go to the page that contains this image: Donkey stone, used for cleaning outside steps and pavements  Go to the page that contains this image: Carbolic soap, which was cut into pieces to use  Go to the page that contains this image: Living history interpreter as Fred at the pit head baths, in his cloth cap. 
Go to the page that contains this image: Snap tin, used to carry a miner's lunch underground      
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