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BRIAN ELLIOTT’S PIT VOICES project is an ongoing programme of recorded interviews with former
The pitmen talk about their experiences in a traditional industry and way of life that has almost disappeared.
Edited versions of the interviews are available in Brian's book Yorkshire Mining Veterans (Wharncliffe Books, 2005).
In these sample extracts you can hear 100-year-old Tommy Hart talk about his early work on the pit top and underground and 95-year old Gerald Booth demonstrates a fine singing voice.
George Rawson recalls the 1921 miners' strike and riding pit ponies and we hear from Bernard Goddard ,the youngest mines inspector in
George Kemp and Jack Parkin remember the terrible Wharncliffe Woodmoor disaster of 1936.
Jim Reeve describes some of his experiences as a Mines Rescue volunteer and how he felt when he had convey bad news to a miner s wife. Listen, also, to the contrasting voices of Frank Beverley,(including 'tipple-tin-day)_ Len Picken; and Dennis Rodgers who got buried in Wentworth Drift. Two younger men, Stuart Woodlock and Michael Taylor tell us about their early mining experiences.
Track 1 (6.00): Tommy Hart (b.1905) re:Droppingwell & Warren House
Track 2 (4.40): Gerald Booth (b.1909) re Dodworth Redbrook
Track 3 (3.10): George Rawson (b.1913) re: Royston and Woodmoor 4&5
Track 4 (9.02): Bernard Goddard (b.1917) re: Orange & Mines Inspectorate
Tracks 5/6 (7.41): George Kemp (b.1920) & Jack Parkin (b.1919) re Woodmoor disaster of 1936
Track 7 (2.4G): Frank Beverley (b.1923) re: Dodworth
Track 8 (5.19): Dennis Rodgers (b.1927) re: Wentworth Drift
Track 9 (5.46): Len Picken (b.1927) re: Woodmoor 4&5
Track 10 (7.01): Jim Reeve (b.1928) re: Cadeby & Barnburgh (bad news)
Track 11 (6.5 3'): Stuart Woodlock (b.1944) re: Allerton Bywater '
Track 12 (4.45): Michael Taylor (b.1946) re: Monk- Bretton
Recorded at
For other books in this series see BRIAN'S BOOKSHOP
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN AUDIO CD - However it may also play on DVD players but this is not guaranteed.
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