FlourMill Colliery
Courtesy of: Gerald Cook. Uploaded:
This
photo was probably taken just prior to a shift change, The butties look
to be having a last bit of baccy prior to riding the cage down to pit-bottom.
Yvonne Hill (nee Preest) added (July 2006):
"I am sure that the figure obviously blowing smoke (as he did) was my father,
Reg Preest. He started as a surface
worker at Flour Mill on his 14th birthday, 1921, where he and others were
cleaning lime from the boilers. He `went below` half-way through shift
on his 16th birthday - he said that he `clapped his hands` at the move
as he would now be earning 26/6d per week instead of 10/6d on the surface!
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