enjoying this thread, guys, and now tantalised - what's the biographer of PH and MJ saying?
Max
On 12/05/2012, at 2:15 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> 'A faded Bircumshaw'---what an image ! title for a book ??anthology
> /pamphlet -superb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 10 May 2012 13:26
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Found, a ( faded) snap
>
> I first came across a reference to this about 5 years ago, when it was
> described as having happened 'circa 1848'. My great-great-great grandfather,
> on his own father's death: from the report to the Children's Employment
> Commission, 1842:
> *REPORT by J. M FELLOWS, Esq., on the*
> *Employment of Children and Young*
> *Persons in the Mines and Collieries of* *Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire and
> on the* *State, Condition and Treatment of such* *Children and Young
> Persons.*
>
> "No.70. Joseph Bircumshaw. He is 16 years old and now works at Shipley.
> Last September twelve-month his father who was heading at the bottom of the
> shaft at Loscoe, in order to get the hard coal, perceived men who were
> working in the soft bank about 30 yards above him had fired the pit and that
> the fire had run up the shaft. He, being a timid man, insisted upon being
> drawn up before the shaft had got clear of sulphur, the consequence was that
> he fell from the tub and died immediately he was got out of the pit. Had he
> remained where he was a short time, he would have taken no harm.
> (Signed) JOSEPH BIRCUMSHAW."I was pleased to notice that he signed it (many
> of them couldn't)
>
>
> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
> "We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
> -* F. Sionil José*
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
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