The Miners' Hymns

[Maggie/915]

Interesting film doing the rounds.

This film has with it a newspaper with many interesting articles

I will attempt to get a copy to Malcolm Robinson for anyone to read.

One article by Lee Hall, includes this quote

"In the 1980s we were told that we lived in a post Industrial Age, yet bought more and more factory made products and travelled more and more miles on combustion engines, as if all this happened by magic. Of course our lives are not post industrial, it's just that we have outsourced the exploitation

Safety standards in the Ukraine and China are equivalent to ours in the nineteenth century.

The proud communities which were once home to unions, pit-heads libraries, brass bands, coop shops - whose profits were distributed to those who used them- were left bereft.

Whilst the capitalists got rich from the privatisation of the nationalised industries, the people who paid for their utilities got relatively poorer and poorer"

Interesting thoughts about our lives in the NE

[Maggie/915]

More information if anyone can read it.

[Adam Hogg]

Very good find maggie we need more people like you to find and tell the history for this great county.