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Originally Posted by Coquet
It is interesting to know that their silver instruments cost between £400 and £500.
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What is more interesting is how they got the money. The Alnwick Mercury of 25 May 1912 reported on a meeting in Amble on behalf of the New Instrument Fund attended by a large number of Radcliffe miners. The new instruments had been got at a cost of £400 but they now needed to raise the money to pay for them.
450 miners from Newburgh had already pledged one penny a fortnight towards the cost, payable until such time as all the money ahd been raised. It was hoped that more money would be contributed following the meeting.