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Miners Strike Feb 1912
Miners Strike Feb 1912
Photo: artful
Views: 2,539
Item #: 14517
Title "Welcome Home"
Caption "A miner lifts up his daughter as he returns home from work at a pit in Wigan, during the coal strike crisis"

Comment by: c s on 12th April 2010 at 17:40

is that a ghost stood in the door way next to the women [spooky]

Comment by: josie pennington nee becket on 12th April 2010 at 23:11

i was just thinking that , u can even see a button on a coat or something, ooooohooohooo

Comment by: josie pennington nee becket on 12th April 2010 at 23:17

its a man with a flat cap,suit and waistcoat with something in his hand,

Comment by: jay on 12th April 2010 at 23:21

that is very spooky !!!

Comment by: artful on 13th April 2010 at 08:35

In the original, there is another miner in the doorway. His face is completely black with coal. A completely black face in a black and white photo has not scanned and uploaded particularly well. Hardly "spooky"

Comment by: cs on 13th April 2010 at 17:37

hi josie how you doing its me carl cs yore raymonds step son

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