"Mysie's no 'coorse, an' she worked on the pithead.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

The pithead is nothing like eight miles away Stephen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Powell: Guardian Blogging on the Casino] Reference

Months passed, and Robert still worked on the pithead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

She ran to the pithead and started back down the stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

"Broke into the pithead smithy and used Taggart's tools.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

A group of dark figures stood on the pithead, waiting their turn to go below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

"I dinna like the idea o 'lasses gaun to work on the pithead," he said simply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

At some of the larger and better appointed collieries there are pithead baths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

"A miner is paid by the weight of coal he delivers to the pithead," he replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

The pithead itself was marked only by a horse trotting in a circle, turning a drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

They stood him in the muddy circular track around which the pithead horses trotted day and night.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

Luckhoff from the Taaibos power station comforts the weeping relatives in prayer near the pithead.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

D Luckhoff from the Taaibos power station comforts the weeping relatives in prayer near the pithead.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The old wooden buckets leaked, making the ground around the pithead a treacherous mixture of mud and ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

The Rev P D Luckhoff from the Taaibos power station comforts the weeping relatives in prayer near the pithead.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The man lived in a little house in a row on the top of the hill some way outside the town, not far from the pithead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruined City]

He might get a ride on one of the heavy horse-drawn wagons that took the coal from the pithead-but he would be safer to walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

I can-not get hold of exact figures, but it seems likely that rather less than one miner in three has access to a pithead bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

The great wheels at the pithead seemed terrible in their never-ending revolutions, as they flew round to bring up the loads of coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

Coalbrook pithead near Sasolburg in the Free State after a large section of the workings of the colliery collapsed the previous day.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For example, in Delhi and Madras, coal costs Rs750 per ton if delivered by rail and Rs 1000 by road, as against a pithead cost of Rs450 per ton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Given seventeen (ish) Gloucestershire folk needing a tonne each, what pithead price would you have to get to make a profit and undercut the £150 price?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-13] Reference

I hauled down my old greasy working clothes, and went off to the pithead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between You and Me] Reference

George Stephenson worked his way from the pithead to the highest position as an engineer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrift] Reference

Miner at pithead counts the coal trucks coming up on his shift near Datong, Shanxi Province.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.kyivpost.com] Reference

I didn't vote for him, but those who did said, "well he still has to come for us for a pithead ballot.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Epolitix News] Reference

It was heard at the pithead, and the people crowded there ran hither and thither in dismay, thinking it was another explosion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir George Tressady — Volume II] Reference

I cannot get hold of exact figures, but it seems likely that rather less than one miner in three has access to a pithead bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

Moreover the pithead baths, where they exist, are paid for wholly or partly by the miners themselves, out of the Miners’ Welfare Fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

So I suppose it'll be the pithead for ye for a while. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

I’d like to look around about the pithead — see the stores and offices.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruined City]

Moreover the pithead baths, where they exist, are paid for wholly or partly by the miners themselves, out of the Miners’ Welfare Fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

"Have you come from the pithead?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

And you meet wi 'your mates at the pithead soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canny Miner Lad] Reference

1912 cost about nine shillings a ton at pithead, costs considerably more than thirty shillings today.    From Wordnik.com.  [An African Adventure] Reference

Shadows pointed towards the pithead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories] Reference

And the pithead baths is a supermarket now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duw, It's Hard] Reference

Aye, the pithead baths is a supermarket now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duw, It's Hard] Reference

At the pithead there were heart-rending scenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whitehaven News headlines] Reference