He worked as a surfaceman at a colliery near Barnsley and supplemented his income by writing verse. |
Last month the Doncaster-based firm said up to 40 miners at the colliery would have to lose their jobs in order for the pit to stay afloat. |
He was a pit deputy at Redbrook colliery on the outskirts of Barnsley, in a different union. |
The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school. |
At its peak in 1911, the colliery employed 2,700 mineworkers, though only 250 of these were indigenous to Warsop Vale. |
After the suspicious death of a miner at a disused colliery in Wales, the Doctor investigates the owner, Global Chemicals. |