When dad & taid were miners...
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| 12:06 UK time, Friday, 16 March 2007
The realities of life down the long-gone pits of NE Wales have been brought back into the spotlight thanks to the photos and memories former colliers have recently been sharing in our Old Photos and Local History mini sites.
For me, there is one image of Hafod Colliery miners that sums up the nature and conditions of the work. Covered in coal dust and sweat and wearing only boots, shorts and hard hats, you can see how physically demanding the work really was.
So far, we've received photos and memories to do with the pits of Bersham, Chirk, Gresford, Hafod, Llay Main, Point of Ayr, and Ifton on the Wrexham-Shropshire border, and we are still looking for more to help build an archive to the industry in NE Wales. Can you help?
