When coal was king.

When I was in town yesterday I saw in the Cancer Research window, this brass figure of a trammer. I wasn't sure what to do, so when I got home I told J and he said I should have bought it. We went to Waitrose in Cowbridge this morning to do the food shop, and then back to Bridgend. I was hoping it would still be there, and as it was in a glass display case, I asked to see it.They wanted £20 for it, and it needed cleaning, but I decided to buy it, and I am so glad I did As many of you will know, my great grandfather was a trammer in Parc Slip colliery,  and he died in an explosion at the mine on the 26th August 1892. He was just 21 years old, and my grand father was born a few weeks after he died.
J has spent a few hours cleaning it up, and it now has pride of place on our mantlepiece, along with our miners lamps.