| Description | DOB: 1894
DOD: Unknown
He grew up in Herefordshire in a poor household with his father.
In 1912 aged 18, he left Herefordshire to work in a coalfield in South Wales.
It was mentioned he was the first “local” miner to use a mechanical coal-cutter in 1914.
He went into a lot of detail regarding the wage-payment system prior to the First World War.
The book excerpts are typed with a total of 19 pages, and have a few annotations.
Colliery, Miners, [Poverty], [Wages], Wales, [Trade], Machinery. |