The raised ground or platforms upon which the coal is sorted and screened at the surface.
1 At the pithead , Yefromov was gloomy about the mine's prospects.
2 He supposed they marked pithead banks and coke-ovens; but pushed on steadily towards the west.
3 George Stephenson worked his way from the pithead to the highest position as an engineer.
4 He paused for a moment, set the machinery working again, and delivered five more at the pithead .
5 It looked like the elevator equipment that would be found at the pithead of an ancient coal mine.
6 It was heard at the pithead , and the people crowded there ran hither and thither in dismay, thinking it was another explosion.
7 To the east rose pitheads , chimneys, and kilns, tier above tier, dim in their own mists.
8 There was another minerad in 1999, this time in defence of miners' jobs, as the pitheads began to close.
9 Back above ground, the Pithead Baths building houses exhibitions such as the story of children in mining, and pit-town home life.
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