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English: A nine-man gang unloads a collier into a barge. Four are in the hold, not visible. The four on the deck who use their weight to jerk the ropes are called whippers. The ninth man swings the coal basket into a weighing machine, where it is show into a barge. A metage man (not one of the gang) supervises the weighing. On a hard but not untypical day the gang would unload 98 tons of coal, the whippers climbing a vertical distance of more than a mile.
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Source Mayhew, Henry "London Labour and the London Poor", III, 1861
Author Unknown engraver

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Gang of Coal-Whippers at Work Below Bridge

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