Comments by "Niall O\x27Neill" (@nialloneill5097) on "Miners | Life down the Pit | Good Afternoon |1973" video.

  1. It highlights how the human spirit pulls together in tough times. I was there in a mining village in the late 50s and 60s, when rationing had only just stopped, and many people's lives were still affected by the grief of two world wars, and the hundreds lost to explosions, and poor conditions in the pits. It is a feeling that is hard to put on paper, but there was always a sense it could be your last day, the men and women were born to work, and graft, the surroundings were austere, all were tough, yet ironically, many were unusually kind and conscious of the need to help one's neighbours. What is sad is the immense human suffering it took to forge such wonderful communities.
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  2. Well said. Since the closure of the mines the UK has gone to the dogs, rich dogs, multinational dogs, who care only to make money from their already vast amounts of it they have stockpiled, oft in offshore accounts, so they do not have to pay taxes and contribute to a crumbling society. The Lord said treat thy neighbour as thyself, and in many of those mining and working class towns, many folk pulled it off, until the rug was pulled from beneath their feet, as they did not fit in with the rich man's plans. The laws of karma will send shudders through humanity very soon, for the wrong in the world. And all we had to do was love one another, in its truest sense. SAD. @SausageSideways 
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  3. Kinnock...and plenty of others! It will not be forgotten!
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  4. Yes, I saw plenty of blue scars in the pit showers, perhaps that's why many miners obtained tatoos, to cover up the oft deep, and long scars. @oreogavinthecat5025 
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  5. My grandma was on the top at 8-9, illiterate, at the pit that caused the Strike...Cortonwood. Lived on a pit estate next to it, called the Concrete, it was as ahrd as it sounds! Few hundred yards away was a mine called Lundhill, which blew up along with a spate of other mines in the late 1850s, leaving most of the women in the pit village without husbands, brothers and sons. Hundreds were killed in those days!
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  6. Probably. Mary Parkinson lived in Barnsley with Michael who just passed. Most of the pits were around there. @SQP-bf4yg 
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  7. Good question...fpr oft it take a child to recognise common decency through their childlikeness, then they get a little older and imitate their dysfunctional parents and put comments like yours on You Tube...and worse still...become stockbrokers, join the investment banking fraternity, become CEO's, or Met Police...then they turn to thefts, rape and criminal crookery...aaahhhh...to be 9 again, and full of sweet innocence and to possess dreams of hope and peace between humanity for a better world @teutonictosh 
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