Mr Letch

Poetry "the clippy mat" on miner's life. Defines clippy mats, cracket stools, stottys. Birtley in 1918-20 - housing, pits, food and drink, women seeing men off to the pit as might not come back alive, births and deaths, funerals, wedding customs, Christmas. Guisers at New Year, Easter events and egg jarping. Working on the screens and with pit pony, work of a hewer. General Strike 1926, policemen with truncheons, blacklegs and candymen. Mining terms.

Location: Birtley
County: Durham
AUD1977-161b

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