Pithead Baths Soap. Bars of pithead baths soap. (P.H.B.). Size 4″ x 2 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ inches. This soap was produced for the collieries and sold in the pit canteens, it came in three different colours (as seen in the main featured image) green, white and pink, the green coloured ones were the most common. These are bigger than …
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Pithead Baths Soap. A bar of pithead baths soap. (P.H.B.). Size 4″ x 2 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ inches. This soap was produced for the collieries and sold in the pit canteens, the bars came in three different colours green, white and pink, the green coloured ones were the most common. These are bigger than normal bars. The canteens also …
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Pithead Baths Soap. A bar of pit head baths soap. (P.H.B.). Size 4″ x 2 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ inches. This soap was produced for the collieries and sold in the pit canteens, the bars came in three different colours green, white and pink, the green coloured ones were the most common. These are bigger than normal bars. The canteens …
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French Miners Pit Head Baths Suspended Clothes Basket. Made from galvanised iron. Size 12″ x 5″ x 4″ inches. The Pithead Baths Story. The idea of pithead baths in the UK had been mentioned as early as 1889 though they were not really seen to be taken seriously until just before WW1. They were in use in Germany in 1891. …
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A Brass Baths Locker Key & Plastic Man-Power Board Tag. Made from brass and nickle alloy and plastic. Size of the key is 2″ inches. Tag size 1 1/4″ round. At Rose Heyworth Colliery there was a man-power board in the entrance of the baths. These tags were placed on hooks next to your name, when you came to work …
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Locker Keys. A typical set of colliery pithead baths locker keys. Made from brass. Size 2″ inches.
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Pit Head Baths – P.H.B. Soap Box. A pithead baths – P.H.B. soap box. This box still has some of the original inner dividers. The box held seventy-two bars of soap (as seen left) unwrapped. Made from cardboard. Size 12″ x 10″ x 8″ inches. The National Coal Board supplied the bars of Colgate Palmolive Soap to the colliery canteens …
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