The hosing down of the miners was a traditional thing, especially if it was a person’s birthday or someone was leaving the employ.‘Give ‘em a shower’. The media liked this but they weren’t on the receiving end of the hose.

| South Crofty Home | The Miners | Other Workers | Milling | The Locos |
| Machinery | Cooks Repairs | Rope Maintenance | Flooding | The Closure |