There's a few young men featured in these films of 1901 who didn't relaise what was coming in 1914.
Really good quality with unblurred movement capturing the coal miners of the day of all ages!!
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'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
Sad to say, those very same streets would probably have been totslly bare in 1918, with many miners joining the Royal Engineers and the Tunnel Units!
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA