tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806074357296171196.post2466712558222197379..comments2023-10-30T00:47:26.928-07:00Comments on Within the Walled Garden: A COLLIERS LOTGillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13664987657318776594noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806074357296171196.post-31869559292267996682009-07-26T12:47:34.106-07:002009-07-26T12:47:34.106-07:00My great uncle was killed in a mining accident at ...My great uncle was killed in a mining accident at the age of twelve. The next year my Grandfather was born and was named after him so my great grandmother had two boys she called Edward, thirteen years apart. The twelve- year-old great uncle was blamed, in the report, by the manager of the shift, for doing something he had been told not to do! No-one ever said sorry or checked the report.This is in the same stuff you have found on line. My Grandfather was gassed in WW1 (mustard gas) and was eventually given jobs "up top" like looking after the slag waggons and the pit ponies.<br />Ah well, GillianGillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13664987657318776594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2806074357296171196.post-69417598806901700152009-07-25T23:42:21.072-07:002009-07-25T23:42:21.072-07:00My father's family were miners too, in South W...My father's family were miners too, in South Wales. I think they mostly got the soft options of working above ground in the offices but still there were all the horrors stories of the great disasters (which have probably contributed to my claustrophobia.) I found a site which lists all deaths from accident in the Welsh collieries from about 1820 but it also says: "As numerous as this list (over 6,000) it still represents only a small proportion of Welsh miners killed at their workplace. Although disasters are large and dramatic in number they only account for less than 17% of mining deaths in Wales. The total number (including those who died because of mining related illnesses) would be incalculable."<br /><br />It seems almost unbelieveable that anyone could be nostalgic for this way of life! It must be the camaraderie, like the war.carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11594072796541608601noreply@blogger.com