No 2 in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century
March 1908: Jess in Birmingham sends Josie in Bath a stark document of the mine disaster at Hamstead Colliery a fortnight before, in which twenty-five miners and one rescue worker died. " for your album... This is the message one of the miners wrote before they died. "
[Clearly the men's trust was misplaced, but we may hope that leaving this message brought some comfort to them in their final hours.]
[Clearly the men's trust was misplaced, but we may hope that leaving this message brought some comfort to them in their final hours.]
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