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Are there any old miners still alive in Amington?
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:10pm
Are there any old miners left in Amington?
I am researching Jim Starkey who was a pit deputy at Glascote then Amington Pit in the 1910s and 20s. He was buried three times in roof falls and dug out by his assistant deputy. He lived at the ancient Yew Tree house on The Green and I've been told he ended up in the lamp house at the Pit. As well as working in the pit he ran cows on his Long Close behind the house and rented hay fields down by the Water Lags. Amington folk of the 1970s remember him as 'a stern old bugger'. Is there anybody still alive in Amington who remembers him, his wife and daughters and can tell me anything.?
