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{37} On the 1st October, 1770, assembled a grand Procession, with
coloured cockades, to start the opening of a Level, designed to be driven
one mile and three quarters in length and eighty yards deep "in order"
(so the notice ran) "to lay dry a body of coal for future ages." The
wages were to be, for boys and lads employed about the horses, and
windlasses--26 in number, 6d. a day, smiths, carpenters and labourers,
above ground generally--42 in number, 1/4 a day,
underground laboures 42, Cutters 68 in number, 1/6 a day, underground
stewards 10 in number, 1/6 a day.
At this date the price of coal at the pit's mouth was not less than 16/-
a ton, or fully double what it is at present. The course of this notable
work which effectually drained the Hollin seam of coal may still be
traced for a long distance by its succession of ventilating shafts,
finally issuing in the ravine called Kearsley, and discharging its waters
into the brook.
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