04-OCT-2007
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The walk to the mine.
I have done it for fun - not every day though.
04-OCT-2007
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The entrance to the drift mine.
The gate is called a Manchester Gate.
It only opens outwards.
There must be an important reason for this!
04-OCT-2007
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Washing clothes and bodies.
Looks like hard work.
04-OCT-2007
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Cerdin Griffiths' bath and fire.
Well done all of you.
04-OCT-2007
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The fridge.
Just a box to keep out the flies really.
Ours was blue in the pantry.
08-OCT-2007
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Jamie Owen and Derek Brockway on location at Coal House.
08-OCT-2007
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5 people cooked, ate and lived in this room.
I have a shed bigger than this.
15-OCT-2007
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Salt & Pepper - Oh dear!!!!
15-OCT-2007
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Al fresco toilets- nowhere near the house.
15-OCT-2007
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I used to have one like this in the mid-50's - on. Born 1954.
No water in the house, just a bucket filled from a tap in the corner of the yard.
Everyone had newspapers delivered in those days.
What happened in winter?????