Crossword-Solution: PITHEAD 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

From the ridge of the workshops to the pithead, a distance of several hundred yards, the cables consist of ordinary copper wire, three-eighths of an inch in diameter; inside the workshop and below ground, to allow of their safe handling, they are composed of insulated wires, while on the way down the shaft they are inclosed in a galvanized tube.

The great wheels at the pithead seemed terrible in their never-ending revolutions, as they flew round to bring up the loads of coal.

Home was waiting over there--waiting just two miles off, where she could see the twinkling of the lights from the pithead at which she had worked, and where she had been so happy at the dreams conjured by six and sixpence per week.

But Hilda's urgency impelled them upwards from the head porter to the ticket clerk, and from the ticket clerk to the stationmaster; and at length they discovered, in a stuffy stove-heated room with a fine view of a shawd-ruck and a pithead, that on Thursday evenings there was a train from Victoria to Brighton at eleven-thirty.

English coal, which in 1912 cost about nine shillings a ton at pithead, costs considerably more than thirty shillings today.