Those of you interested in the past might like this:
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It was written by my uncle, who is 84.
Bill
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TOT the olden days
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Bill Wright formulated the question :
I spotted your contribution Bill, I didn't know you hailed from there!
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Bookmarked for bed-time!
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Ditto.. An everyday story of county folke;!.
Opps!, Yorkshire folk now mind;!...
Interesting that a warden of a local country park has written his lifetimes wibblings and overall very interesting they are too and ideal bedtime in the winter, i.e. next week or thereabouts onwards, reading they will be too an insight into a past age and way of living;)...
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tony sayer expressed precisely :
Too late, I have read them all. What to do now?
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My thanks Bill, for a very entertaining read..
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Cheers!
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contains various other material. 'A rural childhood' is very interesting.
Bill
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The big difference between then and now of course is that the road builders could actually stop folk parking on the roads as there were few vehicles about. Nowadays they put cones and signs, put leaflets through doors a week ahead etc, and still when they come to do it there are cars parked in the way.
Brian
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and in those days there were people who actually set paving stones level and made sure they did not rock. Nowadays all you find is a guy with a pot of yellow paint marking them and nothing whatever happens.
Brian
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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.
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Bill
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What a god awful job mining was. I remember reading the Durham miners site.
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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...
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Earlier than that. 1924, but the same pit.
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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.
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+1
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Yes there was another similar one caused by a flash storm flood, seemed most of them were just children of that sort of age
A most disgraceful time in our history;(..