Black Mountains - The Recollections of a South Wales Miner
Black Mountains - The Recollections of a South Wales Miner
Author(s):
David Barnes
Publication Date: 13 August, 2012
Available in all formats
Publisher: The Books Council of Wales
ISBN: 9781847715852
ISBN: 9781847715852
Price: INR 338.99
Description
Table of contents
The recollections of a coal miner and soldier who survived both the Senghennydd pit explosion and the horrors of the World War I trenches, told through the medium of a conversation between him and his grandson, the author.
Description
The recollections of a coal miner and soldier who survived both the Senghennydd pit explosion and the horrors of the World War I trenches, told through the medium of a conversation between him and his grandson, the author.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- My Earliest Memory
- Baron Llangattock of the Hendre
- Charles Stewart Rolls
- The Garrow
- The Shepherd
- The Well
- Well Cottage
- Play
- The Fumigation
- School
- Sewing or Sowing
- Church
- Pheasants
- Cider
- Kitchens
- Butter
- Tarring the Fence
- Fruit-picking
- Delivery Boy
- Leaving the Nest
- The Grange Farm
- The Gorsety
- Sinking a Well
- The Old Grey Mare
- Hilston Manor
- Growing Confidence
- Down the Pit
- The Night Shift
- Valley Life
- The Explosion
- Windsor Colliery
- A Soldier’s Life
- Enlistment
- Taunton, Aldershot and Woking
- Promotion
- Sailing for France
- Through France
- Flanders
- The Western Front
- No Man’s Land
- Over The Top
- Respite
- Christmas Truce
- The Battle of the Somme
- Fricourt
- The first tanks
- Back to Rollestone Camp
- Recreation and Romance
- Back down the pit
- Homes of our own
- Strikes
- Mine rescue
- Area Safety Engineer
- The winter of 1947
- By car from Wales