tony sayer wrote:
In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus
ARW wrote:
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Bill Wright formulated the question :
Those of you interested in the past might like this:
http://www.wrightswritings.org.uk/?page_id=721
It was written by my uncle, who is 84.

Bill
I spotted your contribution Bill, I didn't know you hailed from
there!

It's where the Wadsworths come from:-).

That article would be just around the time when my Great Grandad
was killed down Bentley pit when the roof collapsed.




http://www.dmm-pitwork.org.uk/html/bentley.htm

Bill

What a god awful job mining was. I remember reading the Durham miners
site.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/mindex.htm

The opening page says "In Memoriam"


hundreds if not thousands killed in that accursed industry and of
course the best of British management presiding as to be expected...

http://www.dmm-pitwork.org.uk/html/daz.htm

is the one I was taught about at school (probably as it was in the next
villiage to the one I grew up in).

There was evidence that 4 year old worked down some pits in the Queens
report into the disaster.

--
Adam