'A faded Bircumshaw'---what an image ! title for a book ??anthology
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
Sent: 10 May 2012 13:26
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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*
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