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Peter Evans
Peter Evans
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quotePosted at 09:40 on 17th June 2009
Penniless they may have been,but rif-raf, never. It was these brave men and women who fired the econamy of the Brittish Empire.
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Ruth Gregory
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quotePosted at 04:01 on 20th June 2009
On 17th June 2009 09:04, michael gerrard wrote:

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I salute these brave people who built our nations through hard toil and graft, they died with the 'clogs' on!  

I deplore the ignorant people of today that only see them as low class rif-raf or unkept, penniless 'rag of muffins' as described in one London newspaper at the time.


Very well said, Michael. There were 2 recent mining disasters over here.  In 2006, there was one that killed 12 in West Virginia and in 2007, nine miners in Utah died when the shaft collapsed.  They were 1,500 feet down and they tried for days to rescue them, but they were never recovered.

 

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