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DAMN LIE! GOOD LIE!Lol
A little more digging and this is what they are -
Pit brow women or pit brow lasses were female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit bank at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones from the coal after it was hauled to the surface
They are coal workers. Not women wearing "hijab". Although I wonder if the Talib would allow women to do work the Edwardian women were doing 100 years ago.
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The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history spanned the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, and is sometimes expanded to the start of the First World War. The death of Queen Victoria in January 1901 marked the end of the Victorian era.