George and Emma Adams and Family c1887

Berry Hill

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George and Emma Adams and family taken, I think, outside the cottage at Top Lonk, Joyford. Tom is seated front row, second from left. George, standing back row between his parents was employed as a boy in the mines crawling on hands and knees dragging the hods of coal through the low tunnels. In about 1934 he showed me the harness and knee pads which he wore, still coated with pit dirt, which he kept hanging in an out-house.

(Photo supplied by Gene Marshall)