Underground tours exploring coal mining in West Yorkshire have resumed, after being halted for more than three months to allow new equipment to be installed. Tours at the National Museum of Coal ...

Coal was the fuel that fired the Industrial Revolution, coal was found in coal mines, and cages were needed to transport men and supplies up and down the shafts of these mines. Play the animation ...

Each time the cage went up the shaft it could be carrying 1 ton of high grade iron ore or 8 miners.The cage came from the last mine to be worked, Moorbank, Hodbarrow. It was used by miners to ...