{"id":58732,"date":"2013-03-11T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=58732"},"modified":"2024-02-10T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T17:48:54","slug":"going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=58732","title":{"rendered":"Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1005\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img043-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58730\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8383233532934131;width:780px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img043-a-1.jpg 1005w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img043-a-1-251x300.jpg 251w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img043-a-1-126x150.jpg 126w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img043-a-1-400x478.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Miners at Lingdale, leaving the mine one carries a safety lamp, others are discarded on the ground along with helmet battery lamps. Was this the Last Shift?. Miners: Bernard \u2019Bish\u2019 Swinburne, Eric Hatfield?, Joseph Hood, ??. <br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ian Swinburn has told the Archive: \u201dFar left on the picture is my dad Bernard (Bish) Swinburne and it might be Eric Hatfield to his left; not sure about the others\u201d. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stuart Williamson informs: &#8220;I was born in Brotton and spent many happy summers at my grandparents, both there and in Lingdale, where my father was born. His grandmother was a midwife before they became official, and she also laid out the dead.By chance when looking through your archive I came across a photograph of my grandfather, Joseph Hood, leaving the pit&#8221;. Stuart also offered his poem:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Northern Poem &#8211; Stuart Williamson \u00a9<\/strong><br><strong>&#8220;Clattering boots on grey stone flags<br>The pit head, a mile away<br>The Miners wind their weary path<br>To the stone face<br>600 foot down<br>In Yorkshire clay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A coat that&#8217;s seen a dozen winters<br>Sisal tied beneath the knee<br>A waistcoat worn with pride at weddings<br>Thick knit socks<br>Strong fags<br>Sweet tea<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ironstone, Belemnite, Nautilus rich<br>Tons of rock propped at the face<br>The ironstone freed up night and day<br>Wolf safety lamp<br>A yellow bird<br>Just in case<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Terraced streets all left behind to wake<br>Pos tubs, mangles, thumped and ground<br>Pies and pasties, bread to make<br>Children washed and dressed&nbsp;<br>And fed<br>And combed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Women left to tend the home<br>Mending holes and fixing rents<br>Tatting rugs with prod and poke<br>Or into service for their sins<br>Ironing cassock<br>A sacrament<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A \u2018job down\u2019t pit\u2019 was all there was<br>You might go to school of course,<br>If you did really well<br>Good at sums and you could spell<br>If money was found to buy your books<br>And your boots<br>And your grey flan-nel&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Identification of the other miners or corrections welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Photo courtesy George Pearson, thanks to Ian Swinburne and Stuart Williamson for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miners at Lingdale, leaving the mine one carries a safety lamp, others are discarded on the ground along with helmet battery lamps. Was this the Last Shift?. Miners: Bernard \u2019Bish\u2019 Swinburne, Eric Hatfield?, Joseph Hood, ??. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ian Swinburn has told the Archive: \u201dFar left on the picture is my dad Bernard [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lingdale-mine","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58732"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78185,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58732\/revisions\/78185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}