Old Photos of Bream and district - Young Forest Miners 1918

Old Photos of The Forest of Dean

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Old Photos of Bream & District

Young Forest Miners 1918

Courtesy of :

Malc Norris

Three young men about to leave for a shifts work, the person on the left is Bert Brooks, 1918c. Bert Brooks was born in 1902 at Coleford, he worked in the pit all his life, and was fatally injured by a roof fall at Cannop Colliery in 1957.
The small bags on the string are almost certainly their "bread" (lunch) - probably bread and cheese. The can would usually contain their drink of cold tea. Note the carbide lamps, the well worn boots, the trousers tied just below the knees and the distinctive caps.