
The life of a miner
is a dangerous occupation. From the moment he sets foot in the cage to descend
to his work, he
is in constant danger of a violent death, or of injury that will render life a burden to him.
Site last updated.»»- Mon 6th February 2012
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- We are sad to report that
recently some of our website content (labelled images and
informative text) was copied from a few of our website pages and
displayed within parts of another website, the authors of which
represented our material as having been originally resourced by
themselves.
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the website may be used for any purpose without prior permission
in writing from the Webmasters.
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Although every effort is made to
ensure accuracy on the web pages, the Webmasters cannot take
responsibility for errors of fact since some articles and some
views expressed in the pages are from other parties and not
necessarily those of the author. May I take this opportunity to
thank the many people, from all over the world, who have kindly
sent me items and photographs to enrich the content of these
pages.
I also wish to express my sincere thanks to the Ministry of
Defence for granting Web Site Licence (MOD WSL 028) to display
appropriate Crown Copyright photographs and aerial images on
this website.
The author: Michael
Martin.
"Crown Copyright is
reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her
Majesty's Stationery Office"