Only lived there for three and a half years, didn't I?
Would he have been qualified and in demand at age nineteen? That, sadly, makes the 'trod on someone's toes' theory more likely. Bagillt - at least the upper parts - are breathtakingly beautiful, but today there's nothing there. Back in the day, there would have been mines and pubs, but very grimy, very bleak, very little distraction, and no taste of the big wide world at all. Today it's a commuter town for Chester (half an hour) and the Deeside industrial estate, but back in the day it would have been the mines or nothing.
On the other hand, IIRC the coal mine would have been on the way out, so shaft-sinkers presumably would not have been in great demand.
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Date: Jul. 6th, 2008 09:11 pm (UTC)Only lived there for three and a half years, didn't I?
Would he have been qualified and in demand at age nineteen? That, sadly, makes the 'trod on someone's toes' theory more likely. Bagillt - at least the upper parts - are breathtakingly beautiful, but today there's nothing there. Back in the day, there would have been mines and pubs, but very grimy, very bleak, very little distraction, and no taste of the big wide world at all. Today it's a commuter town for Chester (half an hour) and the Deeside industrial estate, but back in the day it would have been the mines or nothing.
On the other hand, IIRC the coal mine would have been on the way out, so shaft-sinkers presumably would not have been in great demand.