877781 Group of Wigan surface workers or Pit-Brow girls, 1895 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Sean Sexton Collection; (add.info.: after 1842 when the government outlawed women and children working underground, they moved upstairs to the pit brow where they were employed to clean the coal before it left the yard; they would push wagons from the mineshaft to a stock heap, stack the coal and rake out any stones; they wore a pair of trousers covered with a skirt, a headscarf to protect their hair from coal dust, and a flannel jacket; most were the daughters or widows of colliers; women wearing trousers was shocking in Victorian society); Sean Sexton Collection; English, out of copyright.