Poster of Cast and Crew in The Past At Work - Season 1 - Episode 2 - Steam and the Pit

The Past At Work - Season 1 - Steam and the Pit (Episode 2)

Plot: Before raw materials and coal could be taken from deep mines, an engine for pumping out water had to be developed. Anthony Burton goes underground at Britain's first colliery museum, looks at an original Newcomen steam engine and visits the oldest steam pumping engines still doing their original job
Episode Aired On:
Tuesday, April 1 1980
44 years ago