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INTRODUCTION.This is not a subject that I, or any other author, enjoys writing about. Yet I believe that it is important to stress to future generations the pain and suffering that our forefathers, and indeed, some living today, have suffered. And I believe that that pain and heartbreak should be acknowledged and that the heroism of those involved in the rescue attempts should be recognised, and, as John Buchan put it; The study of it (History) is the best guarantee against repeating it.The era of King Coal and of the South Wales Coalfield is now long gone, the collieries that once provided work for hundreds of thousands of men and boys have been levelled and the land made into housing estates, supermarkets and industrial estates. No more the shrill of the pit hooter and the spinning headgear wheels and the clanking of trams, and no more death upon death upon death in this the most dangerous Coalfield in the UK., where the dangers are many and the fortunes are few . Yet this era still evokes feelings in the last of that breed of men called miners. There was no pleasure in working underground, of seeing butties killed or maimed for life, or of seeing close relatives sucking in oxygen from a bottle due to dust. Very few mining fathers wanted their sons to follow them down the pit. The cold, the darkness, the sheer physical challenge of it all is something that outsiders find it difficult to imagine. So what was good about working in a pit then. Nothing, absolutely nothing, and if successive Governments had built factories on the pit-tops the miners would have cheered. The good times were a spin-off of this most arduous of jobs, true you have tremendous satisfaction seeing a conveyor belt full of coal hurtling its way to pit-bottom. You could feel real satisfaction in doing a real job that achieved something, and that first fag that you lit after coming up the pit tasted better than any gourmet meal, but the good times came despite the job, despite the twin attacks of Mother Nature trying to kill you and the owners trying to rob you. These very two factors forced the miners to unite and from this union came the comradeship that is remembered with fondness. There was nothing good about working in a pit, yet there was everything good about being a miner amongst miners. A strange breed of men is miners, compassionate towards the less privileged in society, but never realising that such are they. Contemptuous towards mere factory workers to the point of arrogance, yet envious of theie pay and conditions. Abusive to their workmates, it is weakness to show affection, but they will claw with their bare hands to rescue him risking their own lives when mother earth is hungry. These are the real hard men. Men who look after their own kind, in the company of these men you felt comfortable, either in work or socializing, your back was watched. If you had a problem, no matter what it was, you could always turn to your union for help and advice and in return the miner gave their union an intense loyalty difficult for others to comprehend. Individually there were some bad uns. and collectively they could be awkward devils, but if this country was now populated by the miners of yesterday it would be a far better place to live in. This book is part of their story, in ten selected disasters you can get a feel of what it was like Way down in the dark lonely deep Nigels Notes - Nigel Bird Railway Books 7/5/17 My latest catalogue (91) is now on lineSince completing this over 700 books have come into stock so if there is location/ 22 fun facts about Wales you never knew before - Wales Online How Mumbles got a boob job and 21 other fascinating facts you (probably) never knew about Wales Read them memorise them and then recite them for your friends at The Regional Institute - Publications Australian Association Of Natural Resource Management Authors; Program; Australian Barley Technical Symposium Authors; Allelopathy Allelopathy Invited Ecology How the miners strike of 1984-85 changed Britain for ever Murton Colliery in County Durham 1992 The pit ceased production the previous November Photograph: Bob Anderson/Rex Features One recent grey afternoon I visit the New Year's Honours list 2016: The full list of Welsh New Year's Honours list 2016: The full list of Welsh honours Chief medical officer Dr Ruth Hussey Sian Phillips Simon Weston and dozens of charity and community Permanent Memorials to Workers - Workers Memorial Day - 28 Permanent Memorials to Workers Permanent memorials listed alphabetically by name of the village town or city where the memorial is located [Expand All / Collapse All] AUSTRALIAN INTERNET BOOKSHOP - svbcomau australian internet bookshop internet bookshop: selling books since 1998 order 2 or more books: receive 20% discount !! po box 176 annandale nsw 2038 australia The Wayfarers Bookshop 69 [Real Photo Postcard Showing Albreda Camp of the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway North Thompson River Region] Ca 1910s Gelatin silver print ca 8x14 cm (3 BBC on this Day: Aberfan - a generation wiped out 21 It took just five minutes for the coal tip above Aberfan to slide down the mountain and engulf a farm several houses and a school Pupils at Pantglas Junior School
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