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Forum: Widdrington 29-12-2015, 08:46 PM
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Posted By janwhin
I don't know about them days but the family...

I don't know about them days but the family reckon my granddad was blacklisted as he was a Federation organiser at Broomhill, where he worked from about 1910 to the early 1940s. They didn't get rid...
Forum: Widdrington 29-12-2015, 07:28 PM
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Posted By janwhin
Afraid George Beverley was one of mine. He lived...

Afraid George Beverley was one of mine. He lived in Radcliffe then went to Widdrington mid 1860s to early 1870s and was back in Radcliffe by 1873. At least the Union was getting itself...
Forum: Widdrington 27-06-2014, 11:53 AM
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Posted By janwhin
I've got 13 deaths so far for Widdrington and...

I've got 13 deaths so far for Widdrington and Ferneybeds but nothing specific to Castle Colliery. The earliest death is 1871 which makes mention of the colliery starting up about 4 years previously....
Forum: Widdrington 07-05-2014, 08:27 PM
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Posted By janwhin
Wild Widdrington Pitmen

Those Widdrington miners must have been proper desperadoes. Here's a newspaper article from the Morpeth Herald of 21 November 1868:
"A number of men have come on several occasions from Widdrington...
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