Females at the coal face: The grime-coated Welsh mining women of the 19th century ...

        January 15, 2019 The Daily Mail | United Kingdom | fossil fuels: coal

Photos from the 1860s show women working in the Welsh mining town of Tredegar. The "pit brow lasses" worked from 6 am to 6 pm earning about six shillings a day. Banned along with children under age 10 from working inside the pit by the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842, the female miners loaded carts, sorted coal, and broke up stone on the surface.