Welsh Magpie 0 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 There's a cry in the valleys , tears in the West Mourning the heroes that wear the pit vest Underground grafters always put in a shift Below the hillside in the deep dark drift They're not coming home to their children their wives ... ... The mine once again takes cherished lives The coalfields of Britain all unite in your mourn We're all the same breed We're pit village born Such sad news to hear that all four miners have died one was a childhood friend of my mother. May the heroes sleep peacefully RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14013 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 As a lot of the lads on here are probably from ex mining villages & communities I'm sure people can empathise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gejon 2 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Horrible way to go. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15561 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Aye, bad shit. Somehow all the more shocking because it's rare these days (at least over here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 One grandad a North East miner, the other one a Welsh miner. The fear that is common to and unites all mining communities. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 (edited) Not meaning to derail, but been on Durham Mining Museum site recently whilst doing family history. The number of deaths listed in this region alone is staggering. 4 men in my family killed in the pits, all within 3 generations. Edited September 16, 2011 by Monkeys Fist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gejon 2 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Watched the first half of the Alan Carr history thngy and they said 700 deaths a year in the North East back in the 30's or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 It was a terrible way to earn a living, bad way to go. Sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 http://www.dmm.org.uk/names/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 http://www.dmm.org.uk/names/index.htm 3 listed on that site. I know someone who has worked on that archive and other regional ones - focusing now on speaking to old miners (while theyre still with us) for their oral histories etc. Really fascinating resource. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 http://www.dmm.org.uk/names/index.htm 3 listed on that site. I know someone who has worked on that archive and other regional ones - focusing now on speaking to old miners (while theyre still with us) for their oral histories etc. Really fascinating resource. I keep meaning to go to Woodhorn Colliery in Ashington, but have never got round to it. I think they're doing the same work there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14013 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 The Road to Wigan Pier is a decent book about Northern Life during the mining industry by the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 The Road to Wigan Pier is a decent book about Northern Life during the mining industry by the way! Not read that. George Orwell isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14013 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Yeh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smooth Operator 10 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 RIP My grandad spend years in the mines, took him to a mining museum a few years back on a day out and he was overcome with emotion, wouldn't go down the lift shaft part of the tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idioteque 0 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 R.I.P horrible news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonraider 0 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 R.I.P My Nan was from the beautiful Welsh valleys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Such sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 (edited) RIP. Sort of off-topic but relevant to some of the comments about Woodhorn etc. There's a cracking Norman Cornish exhibition on at the Baring Wing Gallery at Northumbria University atm (opposite the Civic Centre). Most of his subject matter is the mining community of Spennymoor (where he was from) in the 60s and Ashington around the same time (reminded him of Spennymoor). Edited September 20, 2011 by alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 RIP.Sort of off-topic but relevant to some of the comments about Woodhorn etc. There's a cracking Norman Cornish exhibition on at the Baring Wing Gallery at Northumbria University atm (opposite the Civic Centre). Most of his subject matter is the mining community of Spennymoor (where he was from) in the 60s and Ashington around the same time (reminded him of Spennymoor). Thanks for that. I'll check it out if I remember when I get back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 It's only on until 7th October. Details here: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/universitygal.../normancornish/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 It's only on until 7th October. Details here: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/universitygal.../normancornish/ Thanks, Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Went to see it yesterday. Interesting stuff, but his work doesn't really get my pulse racing. Had a tootle down to The Laing as well. Some nice 18th & 19th C paintings. They also had some modern stuff on exhibition too. Yeah, blocks of wood stacked around; art? Yes, but total and utter shit in my opinion. I see another miner was killed the other day (not to mention the hundreds (?) that get killed across the world which we never hear about). Sad stuff. Thank fuck I don't make my living in that hell hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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