![]() ![]() Wages tend to be very low and the industry with this continual series of booms and sumps and got down into a port economic position and couldn't afford very much in the way wages and the result was that even when we weren't in the middle of the Depression. First of all you've got the recurring booms and slumps of trade generally a right from Victorian era which I would say I'm being more extreme than the you know our own lifetime the inevitable moons and some sweet defect in metal prices and then of course you must realize this that the mind unlike most of industry is well of mine is like a human being when it's blown it's going to die and every Monday is that. I think about eight hundred thirty The were about thirty thousand people employed in the minds of co-morbid either directly or indirectly in fact it was the lifeblood of the county in those days. By nine hundred media out of corn was placed them agreed yet only forty years and the other be nearly four hundred mine was working in corn. He hadn't even shown that was a Cornish mine is life in the last century. It took in minutes before you recover to face and lay and then he drove off with his gun in trend line you another neighbor who was next door to me. That's that's exaggerating it but blood on the gun he's bet it up. And being only kid of about ten eleven I remember I was horrified to see pool of blood. And we happened to meet an old friend of his old left the mines a lot of his talking to my father you had a fit of coughing. My father made sixty nine but I'm sure that my mother's two brothers one probably went to thirty five and the other just over four days it was quite common place to be at school with youngsters of his dad's has died at a very young age I recollect early one morning being with my fun and he was going to gain mushrooms he was unemployed and there was no unemployment benefit for him. Aged to the miners' bodies destroyed his home I don't think very many of them lived a long time. Much abuse to conditions on the ground were pulling down in the dust. Only eight hundred score who could use two thirds of the world's. In the eighteen hundreds the noise they made running across the top of the Atlantic to the English Channel. The engine houses of mine she muses Cornish landscape was silent now. Forced to really give us children three of those were two to do in this great fantastic United States she was told about which wasn't quite so for testing tribunals weekend. When when the mills were stock they sent to England for all the people to control the and that's why there were so many people here from Lancaster and cheese please. One just below the feeling of card justice is a feeling that there is an affiliation a strong tie back to the lab literally of our fathers we perpetuate it whether the all the traditions of the well. I suppose you went to the states because there was no work to be found twelve. Addeddate 01:11:18 Boxid IA1130105 Identifier destinationamerica3madeinbritainreel2 Ocr Grandfather's. ![]()
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