Quote Originally Posted by great_fire View Post
My grandads were both miners, actually one one them was quite a famous (locally) NUM man.

It was crap in those days for sure but for the people working in those last few deep mines it was a good well-paid job, I knew a couple of people working at Maltby who'd been at other pits before they closed.
Have you ever worked down the mine gf? your unfounded arrogance is frankly staggering considering you've only ever, a best, visited the coal mining museum....