Merry Widow, Newcastle-under-Lyme

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Date:29th of April 1921

Description:This photograph was taken during the 1921 Miners Strike.
During strikes, if miners knew where the coal seams outcropped, they would dig small open cast mines, such as the one pictured.
People relied heavily on coal at this time for heating and cooking, and so people would go to great lengths to get it.

As Merry Widow was not an official mine there is no record of where it was, though it could have been around Talke, or between Halmerend and Madeley.

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Strikes & Demonstrations Mining & Quarrying Groups

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Donor ref:PA1776 (22/4322)

Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme

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