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Armstrong, Thomas [Tommy] (1848–1920), pitman and poet  

Roy Palmer

Armstrong, Thomas [Tommy] (1848–1920), pitman and poet, was born on 15 August 1848 in Wood Street, Shotley Bridge, co. Durham, the son of Timothy Armstrong, labourer, and his wife, Mary, née Wilson. Childhood rickets bowed his legs to such an extent that when at the age of nine he started work as a trapper boy in the pit his brother had to carry him there; he never exceeded ...

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Blackah, Thomas (1828–1895), poet and miner  

Kirstie Blair

Blackah, Thomas (1828–1895), poet and miner, was born at Hardcastle, near Greenhow Hill, Bewerley, north Yorkshire, on 27 April 1828, the eldest son in the family of six sons and one daughter of Joseph Blackah (1794–1873), a lead miner, and his wife, ...

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Corrie, Joseph [Joe] (1894–1968), miner and playwright  

Louis Stott

Corrie, Joseph [Joe] (1894–1968), miner and playwright, was born on 13 May 1894 at Limerigg, Slamannan, Stirlingshire, the eldest of three sons and four children of Joseph Corrie, grocer, and his wife, Mary McCleary, a farm servant from Sorbie, Wigtownshire. His father became a surfaceman in the ...

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Harris, John (1820–1884), poet and miner  

Megan A. Stephan

Harris, John (1820–1884), poet and miner, was born at Six Chimneys Cottage, Bolennowe Hill, Camborne, Cornwall, on 14 October 1820, the eldest of the ten children of John Harris (d. 1848), miner and farmer, and his wife, Christianna Smith (d. 1881)...

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Williams, David Morgan [known as Mogg] (1928–1997), miner and poet  

Andy Croft

Williams, David Morgan [known as Mogg] (1928–1997), miner and poet, was born on 15 February 1928 at 56 Pantyrawel Terrace, Black Mill, Llangeinor, in the Ogmore valley, Glamorgan, south Wales, the eldest of the twelve children of David Treharne Williams (d...

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Wingate, David (1828–1892), poet, miner, and autobiographer  

Kirstie Blair

Wingate, David (1828–1892), poet, miner, and autobiographer, was born on 4 January 1828 in Pollokshaws, Renfrewshire, on the outskirts of Glasgow, the second youngest of five children of Walter Wingate (1790–1832) and his wife, Agnes Govan (1795–1875). He and three of his sisters were baptized in ...