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| Picture No | 10102664 |
| Date | December 1866 |
| Description | Oaks Colliery 1866 |
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The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England.
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| Source | Engraving in 'The Illustrated London News', 29 December 1866, page 633 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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