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Above: The Pye Hill No 2 ( Jacksdale) Pit canteen with the surface installation in the background.

Pye Hill No 2 Canteen and pit baths

   

 

Miners of the nearby Pollington Pit which became unworkable in the 1920s due to flooding.  Notice the huge award winning block of coal in the background.

Screening coal at the nearby Brinsley Colliery

 

David Coleman ex-miner, poet and resident of Underwood is available for a modest fee to do recitals about the mining days of yesteryear. 

A MINE AMONGST CORNFIELDS by David Coleman
 
Warm evening breezes
stir ripened corn.
Twisting, swirling,
like a passing gypsy dancer.
 
The dance intruded
by grinding hobnail boots.
Of charcoal faced colliers
swearing, spitting.
 
The scene soon still
their clatter absorbed.
By dusty hedgerows
near smoky homes.

 
 
Fading light silhouettes
wooden headstocks.
Like an outsized creature
frozen in time.
 
Come the dawn white faced colliers
will walk that path,
studded with danger
that has killed so many before.
 
When winding wheels cease
and smoky homes gone.
Corn fields once again,
shall do a merry dance.

 
 
 
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