Title: the price of coal
Post by: crabbyob on May 31, 2022, 12:55:00 PM
Post by: crabbyob on May 31, 2022, 12:55:00 PM
Title: Re: the price of coal
Post by: Raven on May 31, 2022, 03:48:27 PM
Post by: Raven on May 31, 2022, 03:48:27 PM
:worried: :cry: :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: the price of coal
Post by: Alex on May 31, 2022, 03:54:45 PM
Post by: Alex on May 31, 2022, 03:54:45 PM
:sad:
Title: Re: the price of coal
Post by: Michael Rolls on May 31, 2022, 06:16:17 PM
Post by: Michael Rolls on May 31, 2022, 06:16:17 PM
didn't remember it - I was 14 at the time - so looked it up - 83 deaths. Anyone read George Orwell's 'The Road to Wigan Pier'? - harrowing account of just how hard was a miner's normal working day.
Mike
Mike
Title: Re: the price of coal
Post by: crabbyob on June 01, 2022, 08:00:20 AM
Post by: crabbyob on June 01, 2022, 08:00:20 AM
i chose to work down the pit Mike... most of those had no choice... i wonder how many were Bevan Boys?
Title: Re: the price of coal
Post by: Scrumpy on June 01, 2022, 08:28:19 AM
Post by: Scrumpy on June 01, 2022, 08:28:19 AM
Any pit disaster is sad.. Horrifying.. Just being underground and not seeing the sky..
Brave men..
Title: Re: the price of coal
Post by: klondike on June 01, 2022, 09:15:54 AM
Post by: klondike on June 01, 2022, 09:15:54 AM
I think for many it was the choice of a hard and dangerous job or no job at all and starve. The dangers were reduced but never eliminated and probably abroad not even reduced. I was around in May 1951 less than 2 years old.
Title: Re: the price of coal
Post by: Sheila on June 01, 2022, 10:45:44 AM
Post by: Sheila on June 01, 2022, 10:45:44 AM
Paul was taken down the pit on a school trip. The way he saw it, his choice was the forces or the pit. He did 25 years in the forces!