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This is a collection of Poems About Miners… Some from Scotland, some from Wales and some from Canada and Australia… They all tell the same story… I dedicate these Poems to my Dad, Wullie Sim, who was a Miner for over 50 years…
![Collier’s every wan](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-2-225x162.jpg) Collier’s every wan |
![The Rapper Up Man](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Rapperup-Man-225x225.jpg) The Rapper Up Man |
![My Working Day](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Collier-Painting-pickaxe-225x225.jpg) My Working Day |
![Father was a Miner](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-Piece-Tim-225x225.jpg) Father was a Miner |
![Heaven or Hell?](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-George-Benjamin-225x225.jpg) Heaven or Hell? |
![Colliery Painting](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-225x225.jpg) Was It Worth It |
![Colliery Town](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-5-225x225.jpg) Elegy for the Miner |
![Coal](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Coal-225x225.jpg) Coal |
![Time](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/a-matter-of-time-kathleen-patrick-225x225.jpg) Time |
![Miner at Pithead](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pithead-painting-225x225.jpg) A Breed Apart |
![Miner Smoking](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/miner-man-mikayla-henderson-225x225.jpg) The Gaffer |
![The return of a Miner](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Return-of-a-miner-225x225.jpg) The Return of a Miner |
![Please, boys, don’t go down the pit.](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-7-225x225.jpg) Advice |
![Miners coming home](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-3-225x201.jpg) A memory, from age three, for my Dad |
![Pit Ponies](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pit-Pony_art-225x225.jpg) The Kings of Coal |
![Coal Miner](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Colliery-Painting-8-225x225.jpg) Coal Miner |
![Child Labour in the mines](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/child-labour-in-coal-mine-225x223.jpg) It’s in the blood. |
![Coal face props](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-Props-225x225.jpg) The Coal Miners Prayer |
![Colliery](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-Pit-225x225.jpg) Auchengeich Disaster |
![Dire Catastrophe](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-Pit-woman-225x225.jpg) Dire Catastrophe |
![Miners going to work](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Colliery-Painting-10-225x225.jpg) An Autumn Morning… |
![Still Shoveling](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Still-Shovelin-225x225.jpg) Still Shoveling |
![My Own Penny Fare](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Tram-Painting-225x225.jpg) My Own Penny Fare |
![Blantyre Pit Burning Fatality](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Miner-closeup-225x225.jpg) Blantyre Pit Burning Fatality |
![Dixon's Miner's Wives Run To the Pithead](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/dixoncrowd-225x225.jpg) When Darkness Fell |
![Boy Miners 1910](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Boy-miners-1910-2-225x225.jpg) A Collier Laddie |
![Trapper Boy](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Lonely-trapper-boy-300x187-225x187.png) The Trapper |
![Miners Canary](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/miners-canary-225x225.jpg) A Miner’s Best Friend |
![Miners Strike](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Miners-strike-225x225.jpg) On Strike |
![Pit Pony](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Pit-Pony_art-225x225.jpg) The Pit Pony |
![Volunteers of the 1877 Disaster](https://blantyre.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/volunteers-225x225.jpg) The Price of Coal |
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If you have any Photos… Send them to Bill
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If you have any Poems… Send them to Bill
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