William Maurice – The Life and times of a Mining Engineer

Introduction by William Maurice and Monica Maurice

Proem Frederick C. Boden

Mining Places
Beauty Never Visits Mining Places – Frederick C. Boden •
Hagger in Rain – J. C. Grant • Shotton – J. B. Priestley •
Worsboro’ – Roger Dataller • Seaham Harbour – J. B. Priestley •
Norman Church – Kenneth H. Ashley • Tevershall – D. H. Lawrence • Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire – D. H. Lawrence •
Ling’s Pit Yard – Frederick C. Boden • The Black Country – Bruce Beddow • Rhondda – Jack Jones • A Coal Miner’s Disgust – Herbert Palmer •

Miners’ Homes
Portrait of a Pitman – D. H. Lawrence • At Easingden – J. G. Sinclair •
The Tiny Drawing Rooms – Harry Carlisle • In Lowood – James C. Welsh • Geordie Comes Home – J. C. Grant • Back to Backs – J. C. Grant •
The Maheu Family – Emile Zola • The Maheus’ Home – Emile Zola •
Morel Weshes – D. H. Lawrence •

Miners’ Womenfolk
The Heckler – Howard Pease • Zay’s Wife – Bruce Beddow •
Just Married – D. H. Lawrence • Women’s Utility – J. G. Sinclair •
A Kitchen – Frederick C. Boden • A Woman Lies – Awake Frederick C. Boden • The Collier’s Wife – D. H. Lawrence • A Miner’s Widow – D. H. Lawrence •
The Miner’s Wife As Heroine – H. V. Morton •
Odour of Chrysanthemums – D. H. Lawrence • Revelation – Rhys Davies •

The Collier’s Wedding – Edward Chicken

Colliers and Collieries
The Welsh Miner – H. V. Morton • Coal – John Gould Fletcher •
Fire of Coals – J. P. Angold • Get up – Joseph Skipsey •
Pit Bus – Kenneth Ashley • The Mineshaft – A. E. Tomlinson •
A Cage Load of Men – Joe Corrie • Cavilling Day – Jack Lawson •
Geordie’s Marrow – Henry W. Nevinson • Red Shean Is Worried – Harry Carlisle •The Ancient Miner – Chas. MacCarron •
The Flight of The Lodger – Howard Pease •
A Pitman’s Epitaph – Huw Menai Williams • The Hodder – J. C. Grant •
Dudleys – Roger Dataller • Pitmatik – J. B. Priestley •
The Tyneside Accent – J. B. Priestley • The Pitman’s Pay – Thomas Wilson •

Pit Ponies and Colliery Horses
Gals – Lawrence Pilkington • The Ponies – Wilfrid Gibson •
Pit Ponies and Colliery Horses – H. V. Morton •
The Stables – Roger Dataller • The Mare Without a Name – Rhys Davies •
Wee Danny Joe Corrie • The Pit Pony – Dorothy Una Ratcliffe •
Trompette Goes Underground – Emile Zola •

The Darkness of the Mine
The Mine – Leo Chiozza Money • The Miner and His Lamp – Joseph Skipsey • The Lamp Lighting Underground  – Joseph Keating •
When the Light Died Out – Harold Heslop •
A Thousand Feet Below – J. G. Sinclair • Pit Lamps–Frederick C. Boden •
Red Shean’s Baptism of Darkness – Harry Carlisle • Glow-Worms – J. C. Grant • Nystagmus – Harry Carlisle • He Lives in Eternal Light – Harry Carlisle •
The Flame Lay – Roger Dataller •

Accidents and Disasters
The Disaster – Wilfrid Gibson • John Fellows Gets Hurt – Francis Brett Young • Rescue: Sir George Tressady Lends a Hand – Mrs Humphrey Ward •
The Destruction of the Voreaux Mine – Emile Zola • Entombed – Emile Zola
The Hartley Calamity – Joseph Skipsey •
Bringing Out the Dead – Frederick C. Boden • A Pit Funeral – J. C. Grant •
After the Funeral – J. C. Grant •

Masters and Men
One of Our Directors – Ernest Rhys • The Manager – Jack Lawson •
It’s Fine Tae Keep in Wi’ The Gaffer – Joe Corrie •
Morel and the Manager – D. H. Lawrence • Stacks Gate – D. H. Lawrence •
Coil Barrers – Richard Fynes • Shipley – D. H. Lawrence •
The Inquiry J. C. Grant •

Strikes
Two Sides to a Question – Beth Ellis • The Strike – Bruce Beddow •
The Case for the Miners – Siegfried Sassoon • Unemployed – Jack Lawson • Emlyn Discusses the Dole – H. V. Morton • Why Not Emigrate? – Dorothy Una Ratcliffe • Coal Owners and a Strike – W. E. Tirebuck •

Pitman’s Songs
A Miner’s Morning Song – David Wingate •
The Pitman’s Happy Times –  J. P. Robson • The Collier’s Rant – Anon.•
Song of the Miners – Joe Corrie •
Don’t Go Down in the Mine Dad –  Robert Donnelly • An Old Song – E. M. Martin Success Unto the Coal Trade – Anon. • We Dig and Delve – W. H. Uttley •
The Bonnie Pit Laddie – Anon. • The Collier’s Pay Week – Anon. •
The Pitman –  Anon.

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