CD- Pit Voices - Yorkshire miners telling their stories

  BRIAN ELLIOTT'S  PIT VOICES   project includes an ongoing programme of interviews with former Yorkshire miners. The pitmen talk about their experiences in a traditional industry and way of life that has almost disappeared. The original (30-80 min) interviews, transcribed and edited, are available in Brian's book Yorkshire Mining Veterans (Wharncliffe Books, 2005). The following consist of extracts from 11 recordings. You can listen to what life was like as a pit lad from the early years of the twentieth century; a young collier describes working naked when a startled Mayoress made a VIP underground visit; and we can hear a trammer who worked by the light of a candle, We also have a first hand account relating to the 1961 Cortonwood disaster and an eerie excursion by a young miner into the old workings at Cadeby where the terrible disaster of 1912 took place. The extracts also include sample experiences of men who moved to Yorkshire from the North East of England and from Scotland; and also the memories of a former NCB photographer. If you are interested in our rich mining heritage, in social and cultural history, then the PIT VOICES series should not be missed. Running time 47.04

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• Track 1 (5.25): Tommy Emms (b.1911), re: Yorkshire Main (Edlington)
• Track 2 (2.21): Tommy Henwood (b. 1911), re: Bentley Colliery Track 3 (3.53): John Wiiliamson (b.1912), re Houghton Main
• Track 4 (3.17): Harry Taylor (b.1913), re: Rob Royd (Dodworth)
• Track 5 (4.49): Sid Cutts (b. 1919), re: Manvers Main
• Track 6 (3.15): Stan Potter (b.1922), re: Guider Bottom Drift (Hoylandswaine)
• Track 7 (3.52): Ted Lunness (b.1927), re: Cortonwood Colliery (1966 disaster)
• Track 8 (4.40): Bob Jackson (b.1931), re: No Place (Durham), ex New Stubbin
• Track 9 (4.35): Eric Crabtree (b. 1932), re: Cadeby Main (1912 disaster)
• Track 10 (6.30): Jeff Poar (b. 1933), former NCB photographer
• Track 11 (4.24): George Rankin (b. 1937), re Scottish mines, ex Markham Main

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN AUDIO CD - it should also play on  DVD players but this is not guaranteed.

PLEASE SEE MediaWorldmarket SHOP for PIT VOICES VOL 2 and others in this series.