BBC Bristol's television news programme this evening contained a report
on the unveiling of a memorial to the Forest of Dean miners today. It
was accompanied by a film of miners getting into the cage to go down the
pit, and one of them had a cigarette in his mouth. I know that the
Somerset pits used actylene lamps until fairly recently (1950s?) - would
smoking have been allowed in such a pit?
Keith Ramsey
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