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<blockquote data-quote="Hayman" data-source="post: 368725" data-attributes="member: 52867"><p>A good question. Every building has to have been designed, even the most mundane. As to their age, they were built in 1944, during WWII when coal was an essential strategic resource. Found online from Meg Gurney's Local History of South Wales and Llanhillith Miners' Institute:</p><p></p><p><strong>START</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Welcomed in 1944</strong></p><p></p><p>But in 1944 this building was welcomed with open arms by the majority of the community. These unassuming buildings, built at pitheads all over the UK, mostly between 1920s and 1950s, improved the health of mining families at a stroke. </p><p></p><p>Every day women had had back-breaking work, carrying bucket after bucket of cold water from the outside pump, or later the kitchen tap, to boil on an open coal fire, kept alight by carrying bucket after bucket of coal from the cwch [cubby hole, bunker] on the backyard.This coal had already been carried bucket after bucket from the back lane or the road in front of the terraced house into the coal cwch. This heavy work resulted in premature births, and miscarriages ensuring the lifespan of women (around 40 years,) at this time was even shorter than that of their husbands risking life and limb down the pit. These pithead baths also reduced the number fo women and children receiving scalds and burns, whilst the boiling water was transferred from the hob to the tin bath.</p><p></p><p>Prior to these baths, the men would walk from the Pit at Llanhilleth,Navigation in Crumlin, or even across the mountain from Abersychan, and arrive home dirty, dusty, sometimes wet or in winter, possibly with icicles on their clothes.Washing and drying such clothes without a washing machine was not an easy task.Meals were cooked on the coal fire or in the fireside oven, and all this while children played underfoot.</p><p></p><p>END</p><p></p><p>These baths did as much to ease life as any place of worship. But they do not have the same 'historic value' or give off the same vibes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hayman, post: 368725, member: 52867"] A good question. Every building has to have been designed, even the most mundane. As to their age, they were built in 1944, during WWII when coal was an essential strategic resource. Found online from Meg Gurney's Local History of South Wales and Llanhillith Miners' Institute: [B]START Welcomed in 1944[/B] But in 1944 this building was welcomed with open arms by the majority of the community. These unassuming buildings, built at pitheads all over the UK, mostly between 1920s and 1950s, improved the health of mining families at a stroke. Every day women had had back-breaking work, carrying bucket after bucket of cold water from the outside pump, or later the kitchen tap, to boil on an open coal fire, kept alight by carrying bucket after bucket of coal from the cwch [cubby hole, bunker] on the backyard.This coal had already been carried bucket after bucket from the back lane or the road in front of the terraced house into the coal cwch. This heavy work resulted in premature births, and miscarriages ensuring the lifespan of women (around 40 years,) at this time was even shorter than that of their husbands risking life and limb down the pit. These pithead baths also reduced the number fo women and children receiving scalds and burns, whilst the boiling water was transferred from the hob to the tin bath. Prior to these baths, the men would walk from the Pit at Llanhilleth,Navigation in Crumlin, or even across the mountain from Abersychan, and arrive home dirty, dusty, sometimes wet or in winter, possibly with icicles on their clothes.Washing and drying such clothes without a washing machine was not an easy task.Meals were cooked on the coal fire or in the fireside oven, and all this while children played underfoot. END These baths did as much to ease life as any place of worship. But they do not have the same 'historic value' or give off the same vibes. [B] [/B] [/QUOTE]
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