dailylives

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Man cages manufactured by Vickers Armstrong

from North East Museums

  • Tender & endangered Cow/Horse said:
    what does 'man cages' mean?
  • Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:
    Hi, Man cages such as these were used to transport miners underground and raise them back up again. It's essentially serving as a lift.
  • optimal chicken said:
    Yes. They made them in columns to move men more quickly in bigger groups - some mines employed over a thousand men below ground in any one working shift. The same would be done for transporting lots tubs full of coal to the surface.

Christmas at the 3rd Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, 1916

from North East Museums

  • SUSAN REDDY said:
    I don't think it's Northern General Hospital, it didn't exist back then. It was The Workhouse
  • successful toe said:
    SUSAN REDDY it is the Third Northern General, the former teacher training college at Collegiate Crescent which is now SHU

Manufacturing fishing floats

from North East Museums

  • optimal chicken said:
    Oh wow! I didn't read the text and looked at the image first - I thought they'd been making canon balls up until that date. Haha!