"Like so many other lads in North Staffordshire, George Shufflebotham followed his father down the pit, so he knew what to expect when he rolled up for his first day at Berry Hill Colliery. Between 1996 and 2003 he wrote a series of popular articles that were featured in the Sentinel newspaper in the series ""the way we were"" and ""all your yesterday's"". This selection of those articles recall the experiences of working underground and reflect on the many human aspects of a working life down the pit."
By:
George Shufflebotham Imprint: The Choir Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 127mm,
Spine: 3mm
Weight: 83g ISBN:9781911589624 ISBN 10: 1911589628 Pages: 74 Publication Date:07 December 2018 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
"Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Mine of Information; Fear Never Far Away from the Pit of Your Stomach; 3 My Brush with Death in Coal Fire Explosion; 4 Haway the Lads . . . Geordies Teach Us Union Ways; 5 The ""Hillbillies"" who sorted out old coal faces; 6 Ahead of its time; 7 ""Wayn Do it mar wee ternayt!"" said Arthur . . .and we did; 8 Lads so proud to be in pit gear; 9 Riding a runaway underground train; 10 I could have gone down the pit at six; 11 Spike, Tummy and Herby . . . last of the funny kind; 12 Pit Life? I would do it all over again . . .; 13 Passage to Florence"
George Shufflebotham spent thirty six years in the pit. He worked at five North Staffordshire Collieries, rising from a shot firer at Berry Hill Colliery to Senior Overman at Florence Colliery.