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I’m 93 years old and went into the pit in 1940 and was exempt from going into the forces.

I was a bricklayer by trade and I’ve worked at one or two pit, Barnsley Main, Barrow and Monk Bretton. We used to work a lot of hours, we worked all through the Christmas holidays, and we never went home. We were bricklaying big overcasts and repairing them.

I lived with my wife Charlotte. We had one girl called Joan. When we first got married we lived at Ward Green in the ‘in-laws’ home.

I remember the blitz at Sheffield I was on nights. We could see the bombs dropping and all the aircraft. They had two nights like that.

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