Apologies in advance for long post, but...
I may be about to beat it.
My granddad lived in a town called Shiney Row (see map) he was a coal miner back in the days when pit ponies pulled the carts through the tunnels, (i imagine around the same time as in the picture in post one) one day one of the ponies got into trouble and fell on its side trapping my grandfather between it and the wall of the mine and it kicked lumps out of him trying to get up, when they eventually got him on the mend they sent him to Conishead priory in Ulverston which was owned at the time by the Durham Miners Welfare Committee (used as a convalescent home by patients from the Durham coalfields) while there he started dating a nurse who he later married and they set up home in Ulverston. (where i still live)
When i was very young we went to their house for a holiday and i can remember going to the pit and watching the men come out looking like the guy in the picture in the first post and every house had a huge coal bunker in the yard similar to the ones in the picture below.
(notice how few cars are parked outside houses)
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