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Amble and District Mining Memorial
I have just been looking at our sister-site.
While reading the names on Radcliffe Colliery Memorial I came across 'Mary Ann Trobe - 1859.' Now this was almost a century before Womens Lib took over, which intrigues me as to how she gets to be included in a mining memorial. Can anyone enlighten me please? |
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If you scroll down past the list of names you will see newspaper reports on the various deaths. Mary Ann Trobe was killed by a coal waggon going from Radcliffe Colliery to the Staith at Amble.
You'll be relieved to know that she was not a child labourer down the pit Like the Durham Mining Memorial site we've included deaths caused by mining in its widest definition. |
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Amble and District Mining Memorial.
Many thanks for that swift reply Janwhin. For a moment I had visions of "Pressed Women" for coalmines similar to middle ages sailors. I'm pleased that was not the case.
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I don't think women were ever daft enough to take the king's shilling
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