Working in a coal mine…
Since covering the anniversary of The Grove Pit Disaster – the worst such event in our area’s mining history – I’ve only peripherally touched on the subject of the local mines. After some prompting by...
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I had a posting schedule for this weekend, but like so many things I plan, it seems to have flown out the window - when the fascinating thread about Captain T.V. Peake was developing, mostly when I was...
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The really fascinating thing about curating this blog is the way it inspires people to look into not just history, but the retelling of it; I have been banging on for years that we need to be careful...
View ArticleLamping it
For those who missed it, I had an interesting question commented to an old post in the week, and I thought I'd make a post out of it as it deserves a wider audience - this certainly sounds like a...
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