Description
This booklet contains a wealth of true and fascinating stories about Brinsley and includes: The farmer’s wife and her diary; Bert remembers the Pit Mortuary, Cocker House and Garden Parties; Brinsley and the Open Road; The real Durham Ox; Pollington Pit of distant memory and big lumps of coal; Flush toilets and silver threepenny bits; Horace & Brinsley in the 20s, Waggon & Horses & Church Lane; Common Gardens, snakes and pit hills; Brinsley Wakes and the drayman; Major Barber, Eastwood Hall and a personal tragedy; Connie, Wharf Row , Ice Cream and the Moor C of E School. 36pp