Just watched it, thanks again Robbo.
Always remember my father who was a pick and shovel coalminer when he was alive saying "The're not real miners nowadays all they are are just machine operators, we were proper miners". He was a "contract coal miner" and he was paid by the skip he filled and yes it was a hard life, during the depression (before my time, incidently
) mum used to do without meals so dad could eat to keep his strength up so he could work,(money was scarce and food was hard to comeby and many a brealfast was a bread and dripping sandwich) when work was available, strikes were common and dad got out of mining in the early 1950's. He had enough of the hard life and constant strikes.
Incidently, my fathers side migrated from Newcastle on Tyne in England and he was from a long line of coal miners.
His father died when he was 60 years old from injuries he recieved a couple of years before during a coal collapse at Burwood Collery Whitebridge back in the early 1940's.Probably could have saved him with the medical aid we have nowadays, who knows.
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Originally Posted by Ausfree
Just watched it, thanks again Robbo.
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