Shale Voices by Alistair Findlay
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Well my faither was fae Breich, and his faither was a shale miner, as was his faither, as they trudged from Lanarkshire from mine to mine in search of work, abandoning homes as they went. Try looking for Haywood now, and see what you find. So as someone who spent his childhood visiting mining relatives all the way from Polbeth to Carnwath, this was pretty much a no brainer for me. It’s not the easiest of reads as the approach is very much in the vernacular, but as you work your way through it, you slowly begin to build a picture of what life was like for people in this hardest of industries. There’s little out there about what was once a hugely important Scottish industry, so this comes highly recommended.
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